Recipe: Maze gohan

This is a recipe for rice with mixed vegetables. You can add other stuff as well-tofu, chicken, seasonal vegetables, kiriboshi daikon, etc. If you put the ingredients in the rice cooker before cooking you get takikomi gohan instead.

Ingredients:

2 measures rice
2 tbsp carrot
2 tbsp celery
2 tbsp shiitake mushroom
1 tbsp bamboo shoots
1 tbsp dried seaweed-wakame-reconstituted, sliced thin
1 tbsp green onion
1 tbsp bonito flakes
1/3 sheet of nori
1/2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp miso
Sesame oil to taste

Preparation:

Wash, cook rice with 2 1/2 measures of water.
Julienne all the vegetables except the wakame and set aside. Slice the green onion.
Mix the sugar with a little water and microwave until dissolved.
Add the vinegar and adjust until sweet and sour are balanced.
Add the soy until all 3 flavors are in balance.
Add the miso, microwave for 30 seconds and whisk until no more lumps of miso are left.
After the rice is done, reconstitute the wakame, drain and slice into strips.
Toast the nori over a burner.
Mix the bonito flakes with the rice, then the rest of the vegetables except green onions.
Add the miso mixture and stir.
Drizzle sesame oil, add the green onions, tear up the nori into small pieces and sprinkle over the top.
If you don’t use all the miso, put it in a coffee cup, add hot water and some of the green onions.
Serves 2-4.