Here's a one-pot dish that you can make in a rice cooker! :D I got this off a newspaper clipping from my sister's recipe notebook. I tried it out 2 May 2011 and it was a hit. Ingredients:
2 cups Japanese rice, washed till clear then soaked in water for 1 hour
1/3 cup soy sauce (Kikkoman or Yamasa)
2 tablespoons cooking sake (Mizakan)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon sugar, preferably brown
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon fine salt (you can use 1/2 tsp first then adjust later)
4 pieces chicken thigh fillet, cubed
2-4 pieces dried shiitake mushrooms, softened in warm water, stemmed then cut into strips
2 cups water
1/2 cup string beans, sliced thinly diagonally
1/2 cup carrots, finely chopped
2 eggs, cooked scrambled style, sliced into thin strips
1/3 cup sliced spring onions or shredded leeks
Directions:
- Drain the rice. Transfer to a rice cooker.
- Stir in the soy sauce, sake, vegetable oil, sugar, black pepper, salt, chicken and shiitake mushrooms.
- Pour in the water then activate the rice cooker.
- As soon as the rice cooker indicates that the rice is done, test the rice for doneness. Add 1/4 c of water if necessary. Adjust the seasoning with more salt if you added only 1/2 tsp in step 2.
- Stir in the string beans and the carrots. Cover and let stand on "warm" setting for 5 minutes.
- Transfer to serving bowls and garnish with scrambled eggs strips and spring onions.
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