Sansai Okowa （山菜おこわ）
What kind of dish is Sansai Okowa??
This is a recipe for wild vegetable rice.Okowa is made using glutinous rice (sticky rice), giving it a chewy texture and making it delicious even when cooled.
Sansai okowa is a type of takikomi gohan made by mixing rice and glutinous rice with wild vegetables. The texture and bitterness of wild vegetables are the secret to its deliciousness.
(Takikomi gohan is a term that generally refers to rice dishes cooked with ingredients such as vegetables and meat.)
Wild vegetables are in season in spring, so in Japan they have been considered a dish that signals the arrival of spring.
However, cooking wild vegetables takes some effort. In addition, in the past, people used to collect wild vegetables that grew naturally in the mountains, but they are a little expensive if you buy them at a supermarket.
For this reason, most households use a commercially available product called “sansai mix = wild vegetable mix.” Using this, anyone can easily make wild vegetable rice at home.
Sansai mix contains butterbur, Elatostema involucratum, bracken, nameko, bamboo shoot, wood ear mushroom, enoki mushroom, etc.
The representative type of okowa is sekihan, which is served at celebrations. There are many other types of okowa, including those made with wild vegetables, chestnuts, and chicken.
NUTRITION FACTS : Sansai Okowa (Wild vegetable with sticky rice)
TOTAL NUTRITION VALUE 1286 kcal Protein 28.6 g Fat 12.3 g Carb 259.1 g Salt Equivalent 8.4 g
Nutritional value for 1 serving 321 kcal Protein 7.1 g Fat 3.1 g Carb 64.8 g Salt Equivalent 2.1 g
INGREDIENTS : Sansai Okowa (Wild vegetable with sticky rice) (4SERVINGS)
- Rice 160g
- Glutinous rice 160g
- Wild vegetable mix (Sansai min) 1P…Solid amount80～120g
- Deep-fried tofu (aburaage) 25g
- Carrots 20g
- Dark soy sauce 24g
- Salt 2g
- Water 390g
- Sake 40g
How to make Sansai Okowa (Wild vegetable with sticky rice)
Use a rice cooker that can cook up to 5 cups (750g) of rice.
- After washing the rice, soak it in water for about an hour. (If you don’t have time, you can skip this step. If you are using pre-rinsed rice, soaking it in water is the best option.)
- Wash the glutinous rice briefly and gently.
- Depending on the product, you may not need to wash the wild vegetable mix, but I tend to be a bit concerned about the smell, so I put it in a colander and rinse it once under running water.
- Cut the fried tofu and carrots into strips.
- Put light soy sauce, salt, sake, rice, and glutinous rice in the rice cooker.
- Add water to the rice cooker.
- Put the wild vegetable mix on top of the rice.
- Cook the rice. There are many rice cooker modes, but I use the normal mode.
- When the rice is done, put a rice scoop into the bottom and lift it up to mix the whole thing. Be careful not to crush or knead the rice grains.
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