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Christmas Lights Onigiri + Easy Chestnut Filling

Fill your bento box with holiday cheer by making these Christmas Lights Onigiri! Filled with a crazy addictive chestnut & brussels sprouts filling, you won’t be able to get enough of these bright and festive little presents of rice!

 

Christmas Lights Onigiri - These bright & festive rice balls are perfect for bento box lunches, holiday parties, and Christmas themed appetizers! Filled with a crazy addictive chestnut & brussels sprouts filling, learn just how fun & easy making and decorating these onigiri are with an easy to follow video tutorial + step-by-step instructions. | loveatfirstbento.com

Christmas Lights Onigiri - These bright & festive rice balls are perfect for bento box lunches, holiday parties, and Christmas themed appetizers! Filled with a crazy addictive chestnut & brussels sprouts filling, learn just how fun & easy making and decorating these onigiri are with an easy to follow video tutorial + step-by-step instructions. | loveatfirstbento.com

Deck the halls with onigiri ~ Okay, maybe not, but why not deck out your bento box with these super colorful, intoxicatingly festive Christmas Lights Onigiri? They’re fun to make, easier to decorate than Christmas cookies, and are guaranteed to fill you with copious amounts of holiday cheer. And, wrapped up inside these little bundles of rice is a delectable filling of savory chestnuts & brussels sprouts, a filling so good, you’ll find it near impossible not to shovel it all into your mouth as soon as it leaves the pan. (But, even if you do, I promise I won’t tell.)

Spicy Tuna Salad Onigiri

It’s time for Monthly Onigiri! For September, we’re making spicy tuna salad rice balls.

 

Spicy Tuna Salad Onigiri - These rice balls pack a serious flavor punch, thanks to the addition of sriracha! Learn how to make these easy and delicious rice balls at www.loveatfirstbento.com | bento box, lunch box

Spicy Tuna Salad Onigiri - These rice balls pack a serious flavor punch, thanks to the addition of sriracha! Learn how to make these easy and delicious rice balls at www.loveatfirstbento.com | bento box, lunch box

Step aside sandwiches, because tuna salad has a new BFF: onigiri. Seriously guys, rice + tuna salad is like a match made in heaven. The rice acts as the perfect vessel for sealing in all that creamy tuna goodness (hello mess-free lunch!), and the very inner layer of rice becomes decadently moist and creamy from the mayo – much better than eating soggy white bread, in my opinion.

How to Make Onigiri (Japanese Rice Balls)

Here on Love at First Bento, we feature an all new onigiri recipe every month in a series called Monthly Onigiri. This month, we’re going to learn how to make classic onigiri – a bento box staple! Plus, an easy onigiri filling that will take you less than 10 seconds to prepare.

 

How to Make Onigiri (Rice Balls) - a classic bento recipe, made even simpler with the help of a rice mold. Learn just how easy it is to make this quintessential Japanese lunch item at www.loveatfirstbento.com (video tutorial included!)

How to Make Onigiri (Rice Balls) - a classic bento recipe, made even simpler with the help of a rice mold. Learn just how easy it is to make this quintessential Japanese lunch item at www.loveatfirstbento.com (video tutorial included!)

To kick-off our first EVER onigiri post, we’re going to dissect, reassemble, and admire the classic, triangle-shaped onigiri. Before we dive head-first into that, however, there’s one thing we should probably clear up: what, exactly, is onigiri?

Known as “rice balls” in English (and also sometimes called musubi), onigiri are those cute triangular bundles of rice ubiquitous with the Japanese lunch scene. They come in all shapes and sizes, and can be filled or sprinkled with all sorts of mouth-watering goodies. So, why are they called rice balls if they’re actually rice triangles? Just chalk it up to a translation thing.

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