Japanese Sweet Potato Rice
Japanese Sweet Potato Rice

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, japanese sweet potato rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This is such a simple dish, as the main ingredients are just the rice and satsuma-imo (Japanese sweet potato), and they are seasoned very lightly only with salt. The natural sweetness of the satsuma-imo is fully brought out after cooked with the rice, and the texture is nicely soft to work great with the shiny chewy rice. Put rice in a medium pot or your rice cooker. Pour in the water and sake and mix in the salt.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have japanese sweet potato rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
  1. Prepare 1 Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo)
  2. Make ready 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
  3. Prepare 400 ml water
  4. Prepare 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  6. Prepare black sesame seeds

Place rice, sweet potato pieces, salt to taste and sake in the rice cooker. Put your hand flat on the top of the rice and pour in cold water until it reaches where your wrist starts. Peel the sweet potatoes and rinse in cold water. Cut them into ½ inch cubes.

Steps to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
  1. Wash the rice in a fine strainer or bowl until the water is not cloudy anymore. Scrub the dirt off the sweet potato but leave the skin on. Cut the potato into 1 cm round slices.
  2. Put rice in a medium pot or your rice cooker. Pour in the water and sake and mix in the salt. Lay the sweet potato slices on top - you don't need to mix it. If using the rice cooker, just turn it on and wait til it's done! For using a pot, see next step.
  3. If using the pot, cover with a lid, and turn the heat on medium. Listen until you can hear the water start to simmer in the pot, then set a timer for 11 minutes and let it cook. Turn off the heat and let it sit without taking off the lid for 20 minutes.
  4. After 20 minutes, it's ready! Lightly mix in the sweet potatoes into the rice with a wet rice spoon or spatula. Sprinkle with black sesame seeds and serve! (or make onigiri :)

Peel the sweet potatoes and rinse in cold water. Cut them into ½ inch cubes. Add the sweet potato cubes over the rice in the pot. Various ingredients are used in wagashi, including rice, flour, sweet potatoes, beans, millet, chestnuts, sugar, seaweed and various fruit. "As wagashi is made mainly from cereals, rice flour,. The sweet potato rice will have a soft, slightly crisp texture with a deeply caramelized, sweet taste.

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