‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice
‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice

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Sekihan, which is a type of Japanese rice made from glutinous rice and azuki beans, is one of the delicious foods that we eat as part of the New Year's feast. Sekihan literary means "red rice" in Japanese because the rice is red from cooking with Azuki beans. It's a traditional dish served during the New Year, births of baby, birthdays, festivals, weddings, or any kind of celebration.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook ‘sekihan’ azuki rice using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make ‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice:
  1. Get 2 cups (*180ml cup) Short Grain Glutinous Rice
  2. Take 1 cup (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
  3. Make ready 1/3 cup Azuki (Red Beans)
  4. Take 500 ml Water
  5. Get 3/4 teaspoon Salt *1 teaspoon might be too salty
  6. Make ready Toasted Black Sesame Seeds & Salt

Combine the mochi rice and the regular short-grain rice and wash. In a pot, combine the azuki beans with just enough water to cover, and. Sekihan is a kind of steamed rice with sweet Japanese rice, Japanese rice, Azuki beans ( not sweetened like ones for Japanese traditional sweets ) and the juice of Azuki beans when it is boiled. Sweet rice is even much more sticker than the normal Japanese rice and is usually used to make Mochi by kneading the steamed sweet rice.

Steps to make ‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice:
  1. Place washed Azuki (Red Beans) and Water in a large saucepan and cook for about 30 minutes until beans are just cooked but still firm.
  2. When beans are cooked, drain but you must save the liquid, which will be used to cook rice.
  3. Wash Rice and drain. Place Rice and Azuki Beans in the rice cooker’s inner pot, add 450ml of cooled red liquid and Salt, mix evenly. *Note: If the red liquid is not enough, add some water to make about 450ml.
  4. Press the Cook/Start button. When the rice is cooked and steamed, open the lid and toss the rice gently trying not to break beans.
  5. Traditionally sprinkle some Black Sesame Seeds and Salt over the top and serve.

Steamed sticky rice tinted red with adzuki beans is essential Japanese celebration food, for graduations, festivals, milestone birthdays and even first periods (to the extreme embarrassment of teenage girls) Sekihan is usually one of many dishes on the table, and more than pairing with any particular flavor, it conveys a sense of ceremony In Japan, it's not essential to osechi ryori, New. Cook in rice steamer in the usual manner. Spread the cooked beans and rice into a decorative shallow dish or laquer tray. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds, garnish and serve. Sekihan (赤飯, lit. 'red rice', rice boiled together with red beans) is a Japanese traditional dish.

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