Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, shumai dumplings and okowa rice in one rice cooker. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Shumai Dumplings and Okowa Rice in One Rice Cooker is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Shumai Dumplings and Okowa Rice in One Rice Cooker is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Divide the sweet (mochi) rice into the okowa and shumai dumpling portions. Put the okowa portion of the rice and the ○ flavoring ingredients in the rice cooker bowl. Place the salmon (skin and bones removed and flaked) on top with the edamame, even out the surface and cover with a layer of lettuce. Directions Fill rice cooking pot with water to the first line and place in rice cooker.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have shumai dumplings and okowa rice in one rice cooker using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Shumai Dumplings and Okowa Rice in One Rice Cooker:
- Get 700 grams For the okowa rice:
- Get 360 ml Sweet or mochi rice
- Prepare 2 pieces Fall salmon (fresh or lightly salt-cured)
- Make ready 1 Edamame (peeled)
- Prepare 2 tbsp ○ Sake
- Make ready 2 tbsp ○ Soy sauce
- Get 2 tbsp ○ Mirin
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ○ Sesame oil
- Prepare 170 ml ○ Water
- Make ready 1 *Lettuce
- Get 7 dumplings For the sweet rice shumai (siumai) dumplings:
- Take 90 ml Sweet or mochi rice
- Take 230 grams Ground pork
- Get 1/3 Onion (finely chopped)
- Get 2 to 3 Dried shiitake mushrooms (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1 Lotus root (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 piece Ginger (finely chopped)
- Get 1 Green onion (finely chopped)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ● Sesame oil
- Prepare 1 tsp ● Oyster sauce
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ● Soy sauce
- Prepare 1/3 tsp ● Salt
- Take 1 tbsp ● Sake
Cover the rice cooker with the lid and turn it on to the "cook" or "high" setting, bringing the water to a low boil. Arrange the dumplings in a single layer in the steaming basket and place the basket in the bowl of the rice cooker. Place the lid on the rice cooker and turn it on. Frozen dumplings take a bit longer to heat through completely.
Steps to make Shumai Dumplings and Okowa Rice in One Rice Cooker:
- Divide the sweet (mochi) rice into the okowa and shumai dumpling portions. Soak each in water for 30 minutes, then drain.
- Put the okowa portion of the rice and the ○ flavoring ingredients in the rice cooker bowl. Place the salmon (skin and bones removed and flaked) on top with the edamame, even out the surface and cover with a layer of lettuce.
- (The lettuce will be chopped and mixed into the okowa rice after cooking.)
- Put the ground pork and all the ● ingredients in a bowl, and knead and mix until sticky. Add the chopped vegetables and mix in. Form into round balls.
- Coat the balls with the dumpling portion of the soaked rice. Place the dumplings on top of the lettuce, and switch the rice cooker on. (If your cooker has a 'mixed rice' or 'okowa' setting, use that. Otherwise use the regular setting.)
- Use this method to cook various things in a rice cooker. I tend to vary the flavorings for both the okowa and dumplings a lot.
Place the lid on the rice cooker and turn it on. Frozen dumplings take a bit longer to heat through completely. The Japanese version of steamed dumpling, shumai (シュウマイor 焼売), also called shao mai, is quite easy to make. See the video below the recipe to believe it. It tastes like the ones you get at restaurants and is certainly much better than the frozen shumai you can buy at Asian grocery stores.
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