Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, japanese chestnut rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chestnut rice or Kuri Gohan is a traditional Japanese fall rice recipe. This aromatic chestnut rice with black sesame and a pinch of salt is perfect for fall evenings. Every fall I am thankful for all the new crops that the farmers cultivate and harvest.
Japanese Chestnut Rice is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Japanese Chestnut Rice is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook japanese chestnut rice using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese Chestnut Rice:
- Prepare 13-16 pieces Chestnuts (cooked)
- Make ready 2 cups Japanese sweet rice (Japanese measuring cup)
- Prepare 1 cup Regular Japanese rice (Japanese measuring cup)
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- Get 1 Tbsp Soy sauce
- Prepare 2 Tbsp Mirin (sweet sake)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 2 3/4 cups Water
Cook the rice as you would white rice. To cook in a rice cooker: After all the ingredients have been placed in the cooker, close the lid firmly, and press the button to start the cooker. A friend in Japan just sent me this recipe for chestnut rice (kuri gohan) and I cooked it tonight. So simple, but with such a play of delicate flavors.
Instructions to make Japanese Chestnut Rice:
- Cook the fresh chestnuts and peel off the skins. I normally boil them first for 3 minutes and then I roast them in the oven for 5 more minutes.
- Wash the Japanese sweet rice and regular rice put it into the bowl for the rice cooker.
- Add soy sauce, mirin, salt, water, cooked chestnuts.
- Turn on the rice cooker.
- About 20 minutes later, it looks like this.
- Mix it and you are ready to serve.
Chestnuts are a perfect expression of the season right now; steaming them with rice, Japanese-style, brings out their natural sweetness in a much more subtle and, to me, more satisfying way than caramelizing by roasting. Cook chestnuts - a Japanese way. Step by step photos and video, including how to remove the hard shell without breaking your nails. The preparation is just like how you usually cook Japanese rice. Put rice, water, soy sauce, mirin, soft konbu, sugar and sake in a rice cooker.
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