Recipe: Yummy Japanese Chestnut Rice

Japanese Chestnut Rice. Chestnut rice or Kuri Gohan is a traditional Japanese fall rice recipe. This aromatic chestnut rice with black sesame and a pinch of salt is perfect for fall evenings. Every fall I am thankful for all the new.

Japanese chestnuts pairs well with red bean, vanilla, cinnamon, whipped cream, chocolate, dried fruit, mushrooms, sweet potatoes, ginger, and rice. Fresh chestnuts will keep up to one week when stored. My blogger friend cum old school mate Annie gave me some beautiful delicious koshikahari rice. You can have Japanese Chestnut Rice using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Japanese Chestnut Rice

1. Prepare 13-16 pieces of Chestnuts (cooked).
2. Prepare 2 cups of Japanese sweet rice (Japanese measuring cup).
3. You need 1 cup of Regular Japanese rice (Japanese measuring cup).
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5. Prepare 1 Tbsp of Soy sauce.
6. It's 2 Tbsp of Mirin (sweet sake).
7. You need 1/2 tsp of Salt.
8. It's 2 3/4 cups of Water.

I want to make full use of it, and so, I tried cooking chestnut rice. Japanese chestnut is a chestnut species which is native to Japan and South Korea. The wood is appreciated for the decorative values. Japanese chestnuts are wide spreading and multileadered.

Japanese Chestnut Rice instructions

1. Cook the fresh chestnuts and peel off the skins. I normally boil them first for 3 minutes and then I roast them in the oven for 5 more minutes..
2. Wash the Japanese sweet rice and regular rice put it into the bowl for the rice cooker..
3. Add soy sauce, mirin, salt, water, cooked chestnuts..
4. Turn on the rice cooker..
5. About 20 minutes later, it looks like this..
6. Mix it and you are ready to serve..

Photo about Japanese steamed sticky rice with chestnut and beans. Product Application of japanese automatic chestnut peanut rice roasting machine. This aromatic chestnut rice with black sesame and a pinch of salt is perfect for fall evenings. Japanese rice, or japonica rice, is a very particular variety. For traditional Japanese dishes you simply cannot substitute long-grain rice, jasmine rice, basmati rice, Carolina type rice, and so on.