Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, japanese sweet potato rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have japanese sweet potato rice using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:

1. Make ready 1 Japanese sweet potato/yam (satsuma-imo)
2. Take 360 ml Japanese white rice or short grain white rice (2 Japanese rice cups)
3. Get 400 ml water
4. Make ready 1 Tbsp sake (optional)
5. Take 1/2 tsp salt
6. Prepare black sesame seeds

Steps to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:

1. Wash the rice in a fine strainer or bowl until the water is not cloudy anymore. Scrub the dirt off the sweet potato but leave the skin on. Cut the potato into 1 cm round slices.
2. Put rice in a medium pot or your rice cooker. Pour in the water and sake and mix in the salt. Lay the sweet potato slices on top - you don't need to mix it. If using the rice cooker, just turn it on and wait til it's done! For using a pot, see next step.
3. If using the pot, cover with a lid, and turn the heat on medium. Listen until you can hear the water start to simmer in the pot, then set a timer for 11 minutes and let it cook. Turn off the heat and let it sit without taking off the lid for 20 minutes.
4. After 20 minutes, it's ready! Lightly mix in the sweet potatoes into the rice with a wet rice spoon or spatula. Sprinkle with black sesame seeds and serve! (or make onigiri :)

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