Onigirazu (Sandwich style Japanese Rice ball). Great recipe for Onigirazu (Sandwich style Japanese Rice ball). If you have an experience to make a Rice ball (onigiri) you may notice that the rice will stick to your hands. Onigirazu will provide you new way to cook the onigiri very easily. you don't get your hands sticky. The finished onigirazu looks like a square rice sandwich covered in dried seaweed. It can be packed in a lunch box or taken on-the-go for a snack.

Onigirazu is a variation on a Japanese rice ball or onigiri. Onigiri is traditionally shaped like a ball or triangle, while onigirazu is shaped into a square or rectangle shape. Onigirazu is wrapped on the outside with seaweed, just like a traditional onigiri, and includes rice with various fillings as well. You can have Onigirazu (Sandwich style Japanese Rice ball) using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Onigirazu (Sandwich style Japanese Rice ball)

Prepare 150-200 g of rice.
It's 50 g of smoked salmon.
You need 1 of egg.
It's 1 of roasted laver.

Onigirazu fillings are less traditional than that of onigiri and can be likened to Japanese-style sandwich fillings. Essentially, onigirazu may be thought of as a hybrid Japanese rice ball sandwich. "Onigirazu" means "no squeezing" or "no shaping" (there's no real exact translation in English). There is a similar food in Japan called "Onigiri", which requires the rice to be shaped and squeezed into a triangle; however, this is not required when making "Onigirazu", hence the "razu", meaning without or none. For the benefit of those that has never come across this term, "onigiri" means Japanese rice ball, and this reinvention of wrapping rice with seaweed has evolved into another form.

Onigirazu (Sandwich style Japanese Rice ball) instructions

Put the rice on a roasted laver like picture.
After that you will put some smoke salmon on it.
Then put some shredded egg sheet.
Again you will put the rice on egg.
And then you will fold corners of roasted laver.
Like this.
Wrap Onigirazu with plastic wrap.
Cut them in half. ready to eat!.

Rather then the usual round or triangular shape, onigirazu takes on the shape of a flat rectangle, much like a rice sandwich in seaweed. You may be familiar with "onigiri" - Japanese rice balls. The word "nigiri," just like used in "nigiri-zushi" (sushi with a piece of fish over small rice ball), means to squeeze. So onigiri and nigirizushi involves squeezing rice into balls. Today's dish, "onigirazu," literally means non-nigiri or not squeezed.