Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, japanese sweet potato rice. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. 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. Put rice in a medium pot or your rice cooker.
Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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)
- Prepare 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
- Make ready 400 ml water
- Take 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Get black sesame seeds
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. 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.
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 :)
Put rice in a medium pot or your rice cooker. Pour in the water and sake and mix in the salt. When everything is combined and the rice has sunk to the bottom of the saucepan, lay the sweet potato slices evenly along the top. Peel the sweet potatoes and rinse in cold water. Cut them into ½ inch cubes.
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