Hijiki Gohan ひじきご飯
Hijiki Gohan is a delicious rice dish that has been a part of the Japanese diet for many centuries. It is packed with dietary fibre, iron and calcium.
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups rice (*1 )
- 10 g dry hijiki (*2 )
- 50 g edamame (*3)
- 50 g chicken mince (ground chicken)
- 1/2 carrot (*or 40g)
- 1 tbsp sesame seed oil
- a pinch of sesame seeds to top
- a pinch of bean sprouts to garnish
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp mirin
- 1 tsp sugar
Instructions
- 1
Place dry hijiki in a bowl of 500 ml water. Let hijiki absorb water for about 30 minutes.
- 2
Cook rice in a rice cooker. *4
- 3
While rice is being cooked, cut carrot into matchsticks and shell edamame and set these aside. *5
- 4
Place all seasoning ingredients in a small bowl and combine them all together.
- 5
Heat sesame seed oil in a frying pan over medium heat and cook chicken mince.
- 6
Add carrot and edamame and cook for a further few minutes.
- 7
Add all combined seasoning over the chicken, carrot and hijiki.
- 8
Cook until all the liquid evaporates.
- 9
Immediately after the rice is cooked, place the cooked hijiki and chicken over the rice, and put the lid back on.
- 10
Let all the ingredients steam together in the heat remaining in the rice for 10 minutes.
- 11
Open the lid of the rice cooker and stir the hijiki and chicken into the rice.
- 12
Add edamame and stir well.
- 13
Serve in a rice bowl and garnish with sesame seeds and bean sprouts.