Is it possible to make onigiri...?

[angelonline2]

A group I'm involved in is having a bake sale and we want to make onigiri...the only problem is we don't have japanese rice...is it possible to make onigiri with american rice and if there is could someone please give me a recipe???? Please and thank you!!!

[CrazyisGood]

Never heard of American rice before, maybe that's just because I'm asian. Go to your local Asian super market. And I don't quite remember how to make it, but I vaguely remember that you're going to have to use rice vinegar in there somewhere.

Edit: Here you go. Thanks to the power of Google.

INGREDIENTS:

* 4 cups steamed Japanese rice
* 1 tbsp white sesame seeds
* 2 sheets dried nori (seaweed)
* 1 slice of salmon
* Salt to taste

PREPARATION:
Salt the salmon slice for 30min. Grill or fry the salmon slice until edges are a little burned. After the salmon cools, flake it into small pieces and set aside. Cut nori seaweed into a medium rectangler shape. (need 8 of these.) Put warm Japanese rice in a large bowl and mix in the salmon flakes and sesame seeds well. Wet your hands in water so that the rice won't stick. Put a pinch of salt on your hands and grab a half cup of warm rice. Form the rice into a round or a triangle shape, by pressing lightly with your both palms. Wrap the rice ball with a sheet of nori.
* You don't have to wrap a rice ball with nori if you prefer.

Makes 8 rice balls.

[CBASS]

Try Google, your bound to find it there

[Charninja]

As far as sushi is concerned, American rice is about as bad an idea there is as possible. It's nowhere near as sticky as sushi rice, which is pretty much the entire point behind using rice to begin with. However, the vast majority of grocery markets sell both kinds these days (just read the packaging, it's simple enough), and hey, rice is cheap. There should not be much of a reason to go to a specialty market for it, though that MIGHT depend on where you live.

[angelonline2]

When you say most markets...do you mean those other than those in big cities?? Because I don't live in one...it's not really tiny...but say the average Central USA city??

[-Kangi-]

i'd listen to Charninja he knows his shiznet when it comes to cookin.I'd think they would have one at A super wallmart or Target, if not there then Sam Club or Costco. I nkow the Sam's club out here sells rice in a big brwon bag for a few bucks not sure what type it is tho.

[Mr. Announcer]

What makes you think people will buy onigiri in a city in the central US where there isn't a local asian market? Well, just for the sake of making them, I don't think american rice will work.

[DuelHippy]

I've tried using "american" rice, and it does. Not. Work. At. All. Most grocery stores sell sushi rice. The package looks no different than standard rice except it says "sushi rice" on it. Also, you'll want to try to get a little triangle shaper on ebay. It helps tremendously.