Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chestnut rice made with mochi rice (okowa) made in a rice cooker. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Cooking okowa rice takes a bit of effort, but if you just do it in a rice cooker, it's easy. Chestnut rice is something you want to eat at least once every fall. I made okowa because I had mochi (sweet) rice on hand, but you can make chestnut rice with regular Japanese-stylel rice as well.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chestnut rice made with mochi rice (okowa) made in a rice cooker using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chestnut Rice Made with Mochi Rice (Okowa) Made in a Rice Cooker:
- Take 15 Chestnuts
- Take 1 10 cm square piece Kombu
- Prepare 540 ml Uncooked mochi (sweet or short-grain) rice
- Take 4 tbsp Sake
- Take 1 tsp Salt
- Take 1 Sesame seed salt (gomashio)
- Make ready 650 ml Water
As mochi rice has its own sweetness in Japanese cuisine a simple seasoning with some seasonal ingredients is favored. Popular ingredients for seasonal okowa recipes include chestnuts, mushrooms, sansai mountain vegetables, bamboo shoots, white meat fish. Okowa （おこわ）is the name given to a type of rice dish in which sticky glutinous rice is mixed with all kinds of vegetables or meat and steamed. It's related to Chinese sticky rice, which you might have had as part of a dim sum meal.
Steps to make Chestnut Rice Made with Mochi Rice (Okowa) Made in a Rice Cooker:
- Rinse the mochi rice, and soak in water for 3 ~ 4 hours.
- Remove the outer shells and inner skins of the chestnuts. This is how I do it: Boil the chestnuts for about 3 minutes, and soak in hot water for about 10 minutes. This makes the chestnuts easier to peel.
- Add mochi rice, konbu seaweed, sake, and salt. Add the usual amount of water for 3 rice cooker cups. Finally put in the chestnuts, then start cooking. (It might be better to add a tiny bit less water than usual.)
- Sprinkle sesame seed salt (gomashio) before eating, and it's done!
- If you don't have mochi rice, you can substitute regular white rice. It will be quite delicious regardless.
If the rice mix is steamed in small packets, wrapped in a bamboo leaf, it's called chimaki. You can mix any number of things in with the rice to make it a. Tochi mochi (horse chestnut rice cake) It requires a lot of work to prepare the fruits of "tochi" (horse chestnut) to be edible due to their hard skin and strong bitter taste. Heat above ingredients in a large pot while rice is cooking. Toss rice in large pot a little at a time to the meats and mix.
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