Curry、Sushi and Gyu-don cannot be eaten unless good rice is cooked. It can be cooked in a microwave oven, but only for one person and in small quantities. It is not enough for curry or beef bowl. It is difficult to cook a large amount of rice in a pot, but it is also difficult to control the heat, which can lead to failure.
Therefore, we recommend you to use a rice cooker!
Using a rice cooker, you can easily cook enough rice for a family of 4～5 people at once.
Let us show you how to cook rice.
What is "Rice cooker"?
A cooking utensil used to cook rice into Cooked rice. Only short grain rice is used for Japanese food, so a special rice cooker is also used. If you want to eat Japanese food, you do not need non-short grain rice.
Recommended manufacturers are Zojirushi, Tiger, Toshiba, Panasonic, and other Japanese manufacturers.
Benefits of ”Rice”
Simply by changing bread to rice, you can make your diet healthier, including gluten-free, low-calorie, and high in instant starch.
For more details, please refer to the "Japanese Explain Benefits of Rice" below.
Rice is the mainstay of Japanese cuisine. In the past, rice was so important that it was collected as a tax.
Good rice is necessary to enjoy delicious Japanese food.
If you are cooking a lot of rice, a rice cooker is convenient.
Electric cooking
Cook rice in a rice cooker
Material/ Serves 3
450g (3cups)
Uncooked rice
540ml
Water
recommend
Step1.Wash rice.
1. place the rice in a colander stacked in a bowl.
2. Add water and stir 10times to wash.
3. Lift up the colander and discard the muddy water in the bowl.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 for 3sets. It flushes out old starch on the surface of rice.
5. Drain the water in the colander.
Step2.Set the rice cooker.
Place the drained rice in the rice cooker's inner pot and fill it with water up to memory level 3, since you will be cooking 3 cups of rice.
Set the rice cooker's inner pot in the rice cooker.
Step3.Cook in a rice cooker.
Press the rice cooker button to start cooking.
Finish
Automatic cooking takes about 45 minutes.
If you fail to cook
If you fail in cooking and produce food that does not taste good, it is okay.
Soft and watery finish
Cause
・Too much water.
Countermeasures
Eat it as porridge.
Finished rice is hard
Cause
・Too little water.
Countermeasures
If the rice is too hard, add 180 ml of water, turn on the rice cooking switch again, and stop cooking after 15 minutes.
If it is a little too hard, it is delicious as baked rice or in curry.
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