Virtual Onigiri Cooking Class: Zoom into the Hammond Museum’s  Japanese cooking class with Yoshimi Arai to learn how to prepare Japanese Rice Balls. Rice Ball (Onigiri) is a very popular Japanese food as a light meal, snack, or lunch. They are very easy to prepare and convenient to bring for lunch. You can put anything you like inside of the rice such as grilled salted salmon, pickled plum (ume-boshi), teriyaki-chicken.

Yoshimi will give you important tips for cooking Japanese rice and how to make rice balls. You will learn how to prepare salmon and chicken for the inside, too.

Please prepare: (for about three people)

Cooked short grain rice (follow the instruction on package): 2 cups

 Nori (seaweed sheet): 2 sheets

 salt

Salmon

Chicken thigh (soy sauce, fresh ginger, honey),

Umeboshi (available at natural food stores or Japanese grocery stores)