‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice
‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice

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Sekihan is traditional Japanese rice recipe enjoyed during celebrations, sweet rice cooked One of them is Sekihan (赤飯) or Japanese Azuki Bean Rice. To usher in the upcoming Japanese New Year. Let's make Sekihan, sweet rice with azuki beans in a heat resistant glass pot.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ‘sekihan’ azuki rice using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make ‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice:
  1. Prepare 2 cups (*180ml cup) Short Grain Glutinous Rice
  2. Take 1 cup (*180ml cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
  3. Make ready 1/3 cup Azuki (Red Beans)
  4. Take 500 ml Water
  5. Make ready 3/4 teaspoon Salt *1 teaspoon might be too salty
  6. Prepare Toasted Black Sesame Seeds & Salt

It'll be interesting to If you use a rice cooker, follow the instructions for the product. Sweet rice tends to burn easily. Red bean rice, called patbap (팥밥) in Korean, sekihan (赤飯) in Japanese and xôi đậu đỏ in Vietnamese, is rice cooked with red beans. Mix the cooking liquid into soaked rice.

Steps to make ‘Sekihan’ Azuki Rice:
  1. Place washed Azuki (Red Beans) and Water in a large saucepan and cook for about 30 minutes until beans are just cooked but still firm.
  2. When beans are cooked, drain but you must save the liquid, which will be used to cook rice.
  3. Wash Rice and drain. Place Rice and Azuki Beans in the rice cooker’s inner pot, add 450ml of cooled red liquid and Salt, mix evenly. *Note: If the red liquid is not enough, add some water to make about 450ml.
  4. Press the Cook/Start button. When the rice is cooked and steamed, open the lid and toss the rice gently trying not to break beans.
  5. Traditionally sprinkle some Black Sesame Seeds and Salt over the top and serve.

Mix the rice and beans and put it onto the bamboo steamer with wet cloth. Sekihan (赤飯) is a dish served on special occasions throughout Japan, made of red azuki beans and sweet rice. Other names for sweet rice are mochigome, glutinous rice - and most commonly, sticky. Sweet rice is otherwise known as sticky rice, glutinous rice, or short grain rice. The Japanese characters usually used on packages are もち米 - mochigome or mochimai (mochi rice).

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