Tasty Japanese Sweet Potato Rice Recipe

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It is quick and easy to prepare and also brings healthy fiber into your kitchen - our Japanese Sweet Potato Rice. Since you cook the peppers in the oven, it becomes particularly aromatic and goes perfectly with gnocchi, hard cheese and balsamic cream. If there is anything left over, you can also use the Japanese Sweet Potato Rice as a great lunch side dish the next day. Good Appetite! Fast, faster, express! With our express recipes you can conjure up a balanced and, above all, delicious dish on the table in no time!

If you are looking for an dinner try this Japanese Sweet Potato Rice recipe. This Japanese Sweet Potato Rice make for a tasty summer dinner that you can make it easy. The Japanese Sweet Potato Rice recipe today I am going to share will surely make you relish the taste of home. Let’s explore the Japanese Sweet Potato Rice recipe.

Japanese Sweet Potato Rice.

Before preparing the dish, we have done some research on how to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice easily with delicious taste. You can have Japanese Sweet Potato Rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Yummy Japanese Sweet Potato Rice Recipe Ingredients

1. Prepare 1 of Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo).
2. It's 360 ml of Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups).
3. Prepare 400 ml of water.
4. It's 1 Tbsp of sake (optional).
5. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. You need of black sesame seeds.

How to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice step by step

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 :).