Japanese Rice

Name: Japanese Rice
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups short-grain rice; 6 cups cold water; 2 ¼ cups water

👥 4 servings

⏱️ 55 minutes

🗣️ English (detected)

category: Rice, Beans & Grains

counters: Japanese Home Cooking

aka: ご飯, gohan, gohan, 白米, hakumai, haku mai, plain steamed rice, Japanese short-grain rice, sticky rice for a rice bowl

pairs-with: miso-soup

slack: unforgiving — the ten-minute rest is the last of the cooking: lift the lid and the steam that finishes the top layer is gone

washing-up: the heavy saucepan, a bowl to rinse the rice in

step: rest 10 min, lid on

#japanese #rice #staple #stovetop #side

🥘 Ingredients

1

Most households cook this in a rice cooker, and the machine is better at it.
2

Rinse short-grain rice in cold water 3 min , swirling it with your fingers until the water runs almost clear instead of milky.
3

Soak @&( timer in water in a heavy saucepan 30 min , until every grain has gone from translucent to opaque white right through.
4

Bring @&( timer to a boil uncovered over medium-high heat, then clamp on the lid and drop to the lowest flame the burner has 12 min .
5

Rest @&( timer off the heat with the lid still shut 10 min , then fold it over twice from the bottom with a wetted paddle.