onigiri rice ball

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Ingredients
2 cups cooked rice
Salt
Pickled plums, cut into small, bite-sized pieces
Cooked salmon, cut into small, bite-sized pieces
Dry seaweed sheets (nori), cut into strips

Procedure
1. Cook rice according to directions on package. Allow to cool slightly.
2. Have a bowl of lukewarm water handy.
3. Dip clean hands into water, and then sprinkle salt on wet hands.
4. Place a small mound of rice (about 2 Tablespoons) in the palm of your hand.
5. Press a piece of pickled plum or cooked salmon into the mound of rice.
6. Toss the mound back and forth between wet, salted hands to form a triangular mound, with the filling item in the center.
7. Wrap mound in a dry seaweed strip.

Serves 10 to 12.


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