Chestnuts can be found in many japanese autumn dishes recipes, including this recipe for Japanese chestnut rice called Kuri Gohan 栗ごはん. It is a hearty, healthy and easy to make recipe due to its short preparation time in a rice pressure cooker. This dish combines different flavors: chestnuts, japanese rice tasty and cooking sake. It is so tasty that you will want to eat it every day!
For the pressure cooker, we use the japanese rice cooker zojirushi which gives an excellent rice like in Japan! You can of course use another brand, but be sure to use the measuring cup provided.
You can also make rice in a pan, for this we invite you to consult our japanese rice recipe.
For the chestnuts, I use organic precooked chestnuts. You can of course use fresh ones that you will have to peel with knives. They will cook in the pressure cooker at the same time as the rice.
Japanese chestnut rice recipe, Kuri Gohan 栗ごはん
Equipment
- 1 RiceCooker optional but recommended
Ingredients
- 500 g of raw chestnuts or 250 g pre-cooked chestnuts in water
- 300 g of raw Japanese rice or 2 pods for the zorijushi
- 360 ml water to be readjusted according to the pressure cooker
- 20 ml of sake or 1/5 tbsp. of sake
- 1 tsp of salt
- gomashio toasted sesame condiment and sea salt (optional)
- black sesame (optional)
Instructions
- If using raw chestnuts, soak the chestnuts in water for about an hour and drain. Cut 5 mm from the bottom of the chestnut, then remove the brown bark. You will be left with a thin skin that you will have to peel off with a knife. You will see the yellowish flesh of the chestnut. Soak them in water for 30 minutes in a bowl. Drain and reserve.
- Wash the rice until the water runs clear. Ideally soak for 30 minutes in water, your rice will be even softer.
- In your rice cooker, add rice, cooking water, salt, sake and mix a little. On top, add your chestnuts. ATTENTION: Respect well the doses of your rice cooker.
- When the rice is cooked, mix it gently with a rice spatula and put it in a bowl to finish.
Tips for the Japanese chestnut rice recipe 🍚
You can add a little ginger to the rice pressure cooker, it gives the dish some pep.
For presentation, you can add gomashio, a Japanese condiment of salt and toasted sesame. You can also sprinkle a little black sesame.
You can also find another recipe of Japanese dish cooked in a rice cooker like our takikomi gohan recipe a bowl of mixed rice.
