Shio kombu "Takikomi Gohan"(Japanese seasoned rice)

Takikomi gohan(Japanese seasoned rice) is flavorful popular home cooking recipe. If you love Japanese rice, then you will love this!

It's Japanese traditional rice dish, and how to make it is super simple but so tasty.

I like to cook rice with plenty of vegetables, and seasoned with shio kombu(see details below), soy sauce and sake.

In this recipe, I don't use a rice cooker, and instead I use a staub pot because I like cooking rice on the stove.

This recipe is for you, if you
• love Japanese rice
• are looking for simple takikomi gohan resipce
• want to know how to cook rice on the stove

Let me show you how to make this tasty rice so let's get started!

About this recipe

• Japanese seasoned rice dish
• Cook rice on the stove(use staub pot 18cm)
• Cooking time：55 minutes(include water soaking time 30 mins)
• Vegan recipe

How to Cook Japanese Rice on the stove

Before talking about the recipe, let me give you a quick guide about cooking rice on the stove.

We have so many high quality and reasonable rice cooker available in Japan, and most of family have one, one of the must cookware.

We used to have one but I let it go as it gets old and damaged.

So instead of buying new one I start cooking rice in a pot.

You don't need a rice cooker to cook Japanese rice, just use any pot you have at home and try this Takikomi Gohan recipe.

The steps

Of course cooking rice in a rice cooker is so easy, but cooking in a pot is also easy, you just follow the simple steps below.

1. Soak in water : Rinse rice and soak in the water for more than 30 minutes.
2. Bring to a boil and simmer: Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook over low heat for 10 minutes with the lid on.
3. Steam : Leave and steam the rice for another 10 minutes.

I prepare step 1 in the previous night then cook next morning. I set a timer and leave it then I can do other stuff. 　

Staub pot

By the way, I use this Staub pot. It's a little expensive but it worth it.

I use it everyday for rice, soups, main dishes, and side dishes.

My staub is 18cm, but I can cook only 2 cups of rice and it won't be enough as our kids gets bigger, so if you have family of 4, I recommend Staub 20cm.

Staub Cocotte 20cm

I like to cook rice in a pot because it is much easier to wash and clean and no need extra space to keep it. Rice cooker takes up some space and my kitchen's space is limited!

📋 Ingredients

Here are the ingredients(amounts is in recipe card below).

• Rice : Japanese short grain
• Vegetables：Carro, daikon, shimeji mushrooms
• Seasoning : Sake, soy sauce, shio kombu

You can choose any vegetables you like but root vegetables and mushrooms are my favorite.

What is Shiokombu?

Shiokombu means shio(salt) kombu(seaweed), which is salty, sweet and flavorful shredded kombu. And we use is as seasoning.

Here is some recipes with shio kombu:

• Quick pickled cucumber
• Daikon skin stir fry
• Simple onigiri(rice ball) without nori sheet

It's great mixing with raw vegetables and make a salad, or seasoning for stir fry, and mixing in cooked rice.

🔪Step by step instructions

Let's go over how to make it.　You can watch this video also.

1. Soak rice in water : Put rice in a pot, rinse the rice and let it soak in water more than 30 minutes.
2. Cut vegetables : Cut carrot and daikon into small pieces, remove the bottom of shimeji and take apart
3. Bring to a boil : Drain the water in the pot, add 360ml of water and bring to a boil over medium heat
4. Add seasoning : Add sake, soy sauce and shio kombu, and stir
5. Place vegetables and simmer : Place the vegetables on top, put the lid on then cook over low heat for 12 minutes
6. Steam : Turn off the heat and leave it for another 10 minutes with the lid on
7. Stir : Open the lid, and stir from the bottom gently(do not mash rice grains)

It smells so good with shio kombu and soy sauce.

Top with kizami nori(nori flakes) if you like, and enjoy the real Japanese rice!

Storage

If you can't eat it all, make onigiri, wrap it up, and keep it in the freezer. It will last for up to 1 month.

It's great for children's snack or light meal.

Thanks for Stopping By

It's flavorful, tasty, and easy to make.

This is my favorite rice dish and I hope you will enjoy this!

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