Chestnut Rice

Name: Chestnut Rice
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 360 ml White rice; 300 to 400 grams Fresh chestnuts; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 2 tsp Sake; 1 tsp Soy sauce; 1 tsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Dashi stock granules (bonito based)

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I wanted to recreate my mother's recipe... I've been experimenting every autumn, so I hope it tastes like hers.

-You may doubt adding sugar, but his enhances the sweet flavor of the chestnuts and also improves the taste.
-When peeling chestnuts, remove the outer skin while it's warm and then peel the inner skin. This might make things easier. For 2 rice cooker cups' worth. Recipe by Ami

I wanted to recreate my mother's recipe... I've been experimenting every autumn, so I hope it tastes like hers.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I wanted to recreate my mother's recipe... I've been experimenting every autumn, so I hope it tastes like hers.

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Ingredients

2 servings

360 mlWhite rice
300to 400 grams Fresh chestnuts
1 1/2 tspSalt
2 tspSake
1 tspSoy sauce
1 tspSugar
1/2 tspDashi stock granules (bonito based)

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Steps

1

Rinse the rice, then add water up to the specified level in the rice cooker.
2

Rinse the chestnuts and add into a pot of hot water. Simmer for roughly 2 minutes. (This softens any hard skin.)
3

Additional step: Set aside the pot (in Step 2) until lukewarm. Then use the handle of your knife to peel the hard skin.
4

If you're worried about handling a knife, go ahead and use a peeler to remove the inner skins. This makes it much easier?
5

Otherwise, peel the chestnuts with a knife. It might take lots of effort. If you feel like giving up, just make sure to peel 2 - that's for a single serving.
6

Soak the peeled chestnuts in water. Remove scum or remaining skin. If you have any unpeeled chestnuts left, simmer again for 30 minutes.
7

At this step, the chestnuts are still raw. They need to be hard, otherwise their starchiness will combine with the stickiness of the rice and everything will clump together.
8

Add the rice to the rice cooker, along with the specified level of water and listed condiments, and give it a stir. Also add the peeled chestnuts and switch it on.
9

Here's the result.