Japanese Sweet Potato Rice
Japanese Sweet Potato Rice

Hello everybody, it is Carrillo, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, japanese sweet potato rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
  1. Make ready 1 Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo)
  2. Prepare 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
  3. Take 400 ml water
  4. Prepare 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
  6. Make ready black sesame seeds
Step by Step to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 :)

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