Fluffy Bean Rice (Rice with Peas)

Name: Fluffy Bean Rice (Rice with Peas)
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 250 grams Peas (usui endo) (net weight 80-100 g); 1/2 tsp Salt; 360 ml Uncooked white rice; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 sheet Kombu seaweed (5 x 5 cm)

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I created this recipe because I wanted to make bean rice without the beans getting wrinkled.
It wasn't flavourful when I added the peas at the end. So I tried adding the water used to boil the peas in the beginning, and it made the rice a lot more delicious.

The key to making the peas fluffy is to keep them in the cooking water until they are completely cooled down. Please drain the excess water right before the rice is cooked.
Using the cooking water adds more flavor from the peas to the dish. Recipe by Puru berry.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

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Ingredients

3 servings

250 gramsPeas (usui endo) (net weight 80-100 g)
1/2 tspSalt
360 mlUncooked white rice
1/2 tspSalt
1sheet Kombu seaweed (5 x 5 cm)

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Steps

1

Take the peas out of the pods, and boil for 4-5 minutes in boiling water (enough to cover the peas completely) with 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
2

Try one and when it's your desired softness, turn off the heat, and let them cool down in the cooking water. This prevents the peas from getting wrinkled.
3

Wash the rice and transfer in a sieve. When the Step 2 peas are cooled, transfer into a rice cooker with the rice and 200 ml of pea cooking water. Add water until it reaches the line marked "2" in the inner pot of the rice cooker.
4

Add the konbu, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt into the rice cooker, and turn on the switch. Leave the remaining peas soaked in the cooking water until the rice is ready.
5

When the rice is cooked, take out the konbu. Transfer the peas in the sieve to drain the excess water, add to the rice, and mix. Please mix gently so that the peas won't get crushed.
6

The fluffy bean rice is ready to be served.
7

I tried with frozen peas, and they were fluffy as you can see in the picture.