Sweet Onion Takikomi Gohan

Takikomi Gohan is a Japanese rice dish seasoned mainly with soy sauce.  We have different kinds of mixed rice depending on seasons, and we put chestnuts, bamboo shoots, Matsutake (very expensive mushrooms), and so on.  My kids love rice, so I like to mix different kinds of vegetable in it, and sometimes meat.  Instead of having a bowl of white rice, we sometimes eat Takikomi Gohan along with main dish.

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Sweet Onion Takikomi Gohan

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Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

1 hrs

Total Time

1 hrs 10 mins

 

Course: Side Dish

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 2 rice cooker cups uncooked Japanese short grain rice (2 rice cooker cups = 12 oz or 1½ cups or 360 ml)
• 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• ½ sweet onion
• Kaiware radish sprouts (to garnish)

Seasonings:

• 2 Tbsp mirin
• 1 Tbsp soy sauce

Instructions

1. Rinse rice until water is almost clear. Drain well in a fine mesh sieve and leave it for at least 30 minutes. Place rice in the rice cooker.
2. Slice onion with a slicer and soak in cold water for 5 minutes.
   
   
   
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4. In a non-stick frying pan, heat oil over medium heat and sauté onion until they are soft.
5. Add Seasonings and sauté more until the sauce gets a little thicken.
6. Pour the onion and sauce over the rice in the rice cooker. Then add the water up to “2”, the specified level marked in the inner bowl. Switch on.
7. When rice is cooked, wait 10 minutes before you open the rice cooker. Serve rice and garnish Kaiware Daikon.

Recipe Notes

Recipe by Namiko Chen of Just One Cookbook. All images and content on this site are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without my permission. If you’d like to share this recipe on your site, please re-write the recipe and link to this post as the original source. Thank you.