So this is a really nice and simple recipe. This is because you pretty much just chuck everything together into a rice cooker. The end result is great Japanese tasting rice with chicken, and seasonal vegetables. Very cheap, very easy.
Ingredients (cooking for one)
Chicken meat
Dashi （出し、だし） - soup base. This is the fundamental to Japanese cooking. It is the base to the soup we'll make. It is generally made from kelp and shavings from dried fish.
Soy sauce (Shouyu、しょうゆ、醤油)
Mirin （みりん 味醂; ほんみりん、alcohol present 本味醂; salt & alcohol しおみりん; new mirin - no alcohol but same taste: しんみりん, 新味醂） -sweet cooking rice wine
Sake （酒）-rice wine
Rice
Directions: Boil enough water for the rice cooker in a saucepan. Add the dashi to the water to create the soup. Remove Dashi flakes if they're present. Add mirin, sake, and soy sauce to the taste. You only need a small amount of mirin and sake, don't get carried away! Maybe a bit more Soy sauce than the mirin/sake, but add according to taste.
Pour the soup into the rice cooker with the (washed) rice. Add the meat and seasonal vegetables (e.g. carrot, mushrooms, etc). Start the rice cooker!
Directions: Boil enough water for the rice cooker in a saucepan. Add the dashi to the water to create the soup. Remove Dashi flakes if they're present. Add mirin, sake, and soy sauce to the taste. You only need a small amount of mirin and sake, don't get carried away! Maybe a bit more Soy sauce than the mirin/sake, but add according to taste.
Pour the soup into the rice cooker with the (washed) rice. Add the meat and seasonal vegetables (e.g. carrot, mushrooms, etc). Start the rice cooker!
If you don't have a rice cooker, i'm sure you could just cook it all in the saucepan you used to create the soup base.
Once done, check the meat is cooked. Cook longer if needed.
I cooked this last night, sooo good! おいしい！ It took 50 minutes in my rice cooker which is standard when I cook rice. It may not take this long, but I trust my rice cooker ;)
Itadakimasu!
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