Japanese corn rice
Japanese corn rice is one of the popular rice dishes in summer. It is simple to make, but very delicious. You can enjoy the crispy texture and sweetness of the corn.
Servings: 3 people
Equipment
- pot with a lid
Ingredients
- 1 cup Japanese rice (short grain rice) When mixing with glutinous rice, make 1 cup with 1/2 cup of Japanese rice and 1/2 cup of glutinous rice.
- 1 Fresh corn on the cob
- 1½ tablespoon Japanese sake or Chinese rice wine
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Water
- 10 ~15 gram Butter (optional)
- 1 teaspoon Japanese soy sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Put rice in a pot and add a little cold water and rub the grains together with your palms gently. The water becomes milky white. Drain milky white water immediately. Add fresh water and rinse rice and discard cloudy water. Repeat this process several times until the water is almost clear. Add fresh water and let the rice soak at least 30 minutes or until rice absorbed enough water and became completely white. When mixing glutinous rice, soak it in water for at least 1 hour, since glutinous rice takes more time to absorb water.
- Peel off the outer leaves of the corn, wash it, and cut it in half.
- Place the corn vertically on the cutting board. Stabilize by hand and cut off the kernels around the cob with a knife (while rotating the corn).
- Transfer the rice into a sieve and leave the rice for several minutes in order to drain water completely.
- Put the rice in a pot and add the same amount of water (1 cup). Add Japanese sake (1.5 tablespoon) and salt(1/2 teaspoon) and mix gently to dissolve. Spread the corn kernel on the rice and put the cob on it.
- Place a lid on the pot and bring it to a boil over medium high heat. Once it starts boiling, turn down the heat to low and cook 15 minutes further. Turn off the heat and leave the rice for 10-15 minutes. Open Lid, remove the cob and gently stir and toss the rice. If you like, you can add butter and soy sauce when stirring the rice.
Notes
Adjust the amount of soy sauce and butter as you like. Alternatively, you can put corn rice on a plate and add butter and soy sauce yourself. This way, each eater can adjust it to his liking.