Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, japanese sweet potato rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Japanese sweet potato is a bit different from the American version and if you can find it, please use Japanese sweet potato which is known as satsuma imo. But, if you cannot find it, any sweet potato will work fine here since the idea is to boost the nutritional content of white rice in this recipe as well as give steamed rice some sweetness. This is one of my favorite fall-to-winter rice dishes since I was a child.
Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have japanese sweet potato rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
- Prepare 1 Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo)
- Prepare 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
- Take 400 ml water
- Prepare 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare black sesame seeds
Cut them into ½ inch cubes. Add the sweet potato cubes over the rice in the pot. Open the lid and turn over the rice and the sweet potato with a wooden spoon. The sweet potato rice will have a soft, slightly crisp texture with a deeply caramelized, sweet taste.
Instructions 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 :)
Japanese Sweet Potato and Rice - Shojin Ryori Food.com. sweet potatoes, medium-grain rice, sake, salt. Sweet Potato Casserole with Bacon Pecan Crumble Yummly. Whereas steamed orange potatoes can be mushy, airy, or even stringy (I'm sorry but it's true!), steamed Japanese sweet potatoes are dense, luscious, and spoonable—the texture of a really cold. 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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