Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, japanese sweet potato rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
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. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook japanese sweet potato rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
- Get 1 Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo)
- Get 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
- Prepare 400 ml water
- Get 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get black sesame seeds
Put your hand flat on the top of the rice and pour in cold water until it reaches where your wrist starts. When everything is combined and the rice has sunk to the bottom of the saucepan, lay the sweet potato slices evenly along the top. Rinse the rice several times and drain using a colander. Set aside for about an hour before placing in the inner bowl of your rice cooker.
Steps to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 :)
Rinse the rice several times and drain using a colander. Set aside for about an hour before placing in the inner bowl of your rice cooker. Add water to the level for cooking ordinary rice, then add. Peel the sweet potatoes and rinse in cold water. Cut them into ½ inch cubes.
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