15-min. Easy Japanese Tuna Onigiri
Japanese Tuna Onigiri. Sesame seasoned rice stuffed with tuna mayo wrapped with nori. Perfect as a snack, light meal, or for breakfast. Ready in 15-minutes with cooked rice.
Ingredients
- ½ sheet nori cut into 2 strips
Seasoned Rice
- 2 cups cooked short grain rice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
Tuna Mayo Mixture
- 5.29 oz canned tuna drained
- 2 tablespoon mayo aka kewpie mayo
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, mix your warm cooked rice, sesame oil, salt and sesame seeds until well combined. Keep warm and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine drained canned tuna and mayo together. Set aside. Divide it into 2 equal portions.
- Cut half a sheet of nori into 2 strips or feel free to use a whole sheet if you prefer more seaweed.
- Lay out a large sheet of plastic wrap on your working surface. Take 1 cup of cooked rice and spread it out into a circle so it's ½ inch thick.
- Place 1 portion of the tuna mayo mixture into the center of the circle. Then take the corners of the plastic wrap and twist the rice into a ball pushing the tuna mixture inside.
- Shape the rice ball into a triangle.
- Remove the plastic wrap and adhere a strip of the nori around the base of the triangle rice ball. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 426kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 835mg | Potassium: 186mg | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 84IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 4mg