Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, japanese sweet potato rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is something that I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Sweet Potato Rice:

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