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A simple recipe for onigiri, or Japanese rice balls, with salted plums
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This photo shows the ingredients to make onigiri easily, in Tokyo, on June 14, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama
TOKYO (AP) — Onigiri is a ball of rice with something inside, similar to how two slices of bread with something in between makes a sandwich. In the same way that just about every American has made and eaten a sandwich, so too have most Japanese eaten onigiri. A Tokyo correspondent for The Associated Press is sharing her basic onigiri recipe.