{"id":52,"date":"2023-10-26T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2023-12-13T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:30:05","slug":"seaweed-rice-balls-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/seaweed-rice-balls-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed Rice Balls Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(12 rice balls)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>3 cups Sushi Rice&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10 sheets Nori seaweed paper<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rice Vinegar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Potential Fillings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Umeboshi (pickled plum)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pickled Radish<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Persian Cucumbers&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dipping Sauce (highly recommend)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Kewpie Mayo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sriracha<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mirin&nbsp;(optional)&nbsp;<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you have time, soak the rice overnight then rinse well until the water is clear &#8211; this is key!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Cook rice according to the package and ideally your rice will turn out moist and soft (no longer crunchy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place 2 tbsp rice vinegar and 1 tbsp sugar in a pot and simmer until the sugar has dissolved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spread your rice on a cookie sheet and fold in the rice vinegar mixture gently as to not mash the rice (this makes it sushi rice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Let it cool for a bit until it\u2019s easy to touch &#8211; my rice was quite mushy but it worked well in the end<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To make your triangles you can do it by hand &#8211; but I bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/f8be43ea-dc71-4ff3-a34c-99e136456b60?j=eyJ1IjoiMjhjZjZ3In0.LKyQ9W17jKtddYwRDYwhNCgd3z2o-TMbyfIDWLS-dPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">little gizmo<\/a> like this that came with my Nori paper at H mart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shape the rice, add a little dent to add your diced radish or umeboshi or cucumber and then add more rice on top<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before you are going to serve &#8211; cut up your seaweed paper and wrap around it. I\u2019ve seen this done many ways and since I was making small ones for the event I just used a small square and left the rice exposed on top so I could sprinkle furikake<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Essential Dipping Sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>2 to 1 ratio of mayo to sriracha &#8211; or add more mayo if you don\u2019t love the spice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I also made this s<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/446ecd33-692e-4ba4-beeb-fae45af98930?j=eyJ1IjoiMjhjZjZ3In0.LKyQ9W17jKtddYwRDYwhNCgd3z2o-TMbyfIDWLS-dPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oy sauce dipping sauce<\/a> that I marinated the cucumbers in before filling if you want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Plate your rice balls and sprinkle the furikake if you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: (12 rice balls) Potential Fillings Dipping Sauce (highly recommend) Steps: If you have time, soak the rice overnight then rinse well until the water is clear &#8211; this is key! Essential Dipping Sauce Plate your rice balls and sprinkle the furikake if you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"For Fun"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/seaweed-balls-recipe-easy-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"danielle@illuminatefood.com","author_link":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/author\/danielleilluminatefood-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"For Fun","slug":"for-fun","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":5,"category_description":"","cat_name":"For Fun","category_nicename":"for-fun","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illuminate-food.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}