Making Rice Balls – Our Healthy Lunch | Holy Cross School Papatoetoe

Yesterday, Tuesday 17th May Vanzin’s Mum Yumi came to school to show us how to make Rice Balls.

We had admired Vanzin’s healthy lunch at school and asked if her Mum could come and share her knowledge with us. She did a lot of shopping and preparing for us.

Preparing a work area

Some of the equipment

Wet wipes to sanitize our hands

We sat in a semi-circle

We watched closely

Some sat on chairs adn some the floor

We watched as Yumi showed us the ingredients and equipment she had brought along.

Cheese and ham shapes

Seaweed – strips and shapes

Cooked rice

Rice cookers

Everyone listening

Seaweed – Nori

Cutters and moulds

Japanese Soy Sauce

Next she made a rice ball and decorated it. Yumi told us what she was doing at every step. She showed us slowly and carefully. We were very interested!

Yumi

The rice balls

On goes seaweed

A finished snack

Tuna

Finished rice balls

She cut a square of Gladwrap. Yumi put some cooled rice in. Then she popped some tuna mix in the centre and more rice on the top. The Gladwrap was pulled together at the top and you use your hands to press together and shape the rice inside the wrap. Take it out of the wrap and decorate it.

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Yumi told us how to make the tuna mix. Open the can, add some Japanese mayonnaise, and a little Japanese soy sauce. Then gently fold together. Ready to put into the centre of your Rice Balls to make a yummy surprise in the centre!

My turn

My decoration with seaweed

Like this

What next

Oh yes

Now me

Focus

Concentration

Careful work

In it goes

And I will add some of this

Making a cool shape

We were lucky that we all could have a turn to make a rice ball using the ingredients we liked. It was great fun. There was no mess! Yumi was a great teacher!