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Cute Panda Japanese Rice Ball (Onigiri) - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Cute Panda Japanese Rice Ball (Onigiri).
This is a recipe for an easy panda designed chigiri onigiri. It will deginately make the kids happy with its cute appearance. If you change the position of the eyes and nose, you can arrange its expression to your liking, so please give it a try!
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Cook time

60 minutes

Ingredients
2 servings

  • Rice
    500 g
  • Salt
    1/3 tsp
  • Semi-dried young sardines (chirimenjako)
    30 g
  • Nori seaweed paste
    1 tbsp
  • Black roasted sesame seeds
    9 grain
  • Ketchup
    1 tsp
  • Nori seaweed
    1/2 sheets

How to make

  1. Prepare. Cut out nori seaweed for the eyes.
  2. 1. Mix rice and salt in a bowl. Divide it into 9 equal parts, then spread it on a plastic wrap, and put dried young sardines on it and roll it into a ball.
  3. 2. Place nori seaweed paste for the ear parts. Place the seaweed and black roasted sesame seeds to make a face.
  4. 3. Add ketchup onto the cheeks and it's done!

Tips for cooking

You can adjust the amount of salt to your liking. We made the eyes with sesame seeds, but you can also cut them out of nori seaweed for another cute look.

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