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sake takikomi gohan recipe

Sake Takikomi Gohan

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Sake Takikomi Gohan is an easy and delicious Japanese rice dish, that you can put all the ingredients into a rice cooker and just sit back and wait until the rice is cooked! The rice absorbs the flavor of the ingredients and becomes moist and tender.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cup uncooked Japanese rice
  • 1 1/2 cup water
  • 150 g salmon uncooked salmon
  • 100 g shiitake mushroom
  • 2 Tablespoon sake for salmon
  • 2 Tablespoon soy sauce HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon mirin HERE to buy
  • 1 Tablespoon sake HERE to buy
  • 2 teaspoon dashi powder HERE to buy

topping options

  • salt
  • scallion (green onion)
  • soy sauce

Instructions
 

preparation

  • if salmon has skin or bones, remove them. Then move the salmon and sake to a microwave safe bowl. Cover with cling wrap lightly and microwave for 3 minutes.*1
  • After microwaving, remove the sake from the salmon. You can use a paper towel and pat to extract sake as much as possible.

Let's cook!

  • Wash shiitake mushrooms and discard the stems of the shiitake mushrooms, then thinly slice the caps.
  • Wash rice and move to a rice cooker. Add water, soy sauce, mirin, sake, and dashi powder. Then add the salmon and shiitake mushrooms on top.
  • Close the rice cooker and start cooking.

Let's eat!

  • After done cooking, open the rice cooker and mix everything. Serve to a bowl and add your favorite toppings such as green onion, salt, or soy sauce!

Notes

*1 This step is for removing the fish odd smell.
Keyword rice, salmon
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