Mame Gohan (Green Pea Rice)

Name: Mame Gohan (Green Pea Rice)
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 3–4
Ingredients: Green peas (in the pod) About 250 g; Rice (uncooked) 2 rice cups (360 ml); Water Up to the 2-cup line in the rice cooker; Salt 1 tsp; Sake (Japanese rice wine) 1 tbsp

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Serves 3–4 · About 1 hr 20 min (Of this, 30 min is soaking the rice and about 45 min is the rice cooker)
A spring rice dish: green peas taken out of their pods and cooked with rice, seasoned with salt.

① Wash the rice→② Take the peas out of the pods→③ Cook with salt and sake→④ Let steam and mix

What to buy

Vegetables

Green peas (in the pod)100 g if already shelledAbout 250 g

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Rice (uncooked)2 rice cups (360 ml)WaterUp to the 2-cup line in the rice cookerSalt1 tspSake (Japanese rice wine)1 tbsp

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How to make it

Wash the rice and soak 30 min

About 5 min + soak 30 min

Measure 2 rice cups of rice with the measuring cup and put in a bowl
Add water, stir lightly, and pour the water out right away
Gently stir with your hand about 20 times, then add water and pour it out. Repeat this 3 times
Drain in a colander and put in the inner pot of the rice cooker. Add water up to the 2-cup line and let sit 30 min (you will adjust this water later)

How to tell it's doneThe rice turns whitish and plumps up.

Take the peas out of the pods

About 10 min

Press the seam along the pod with your finger to open it
Run your finger along the inside to push out the peas
Quickly rinse the peas with water and drain in a colander. Don't use the pods

How to tell it's doneYou have about 100 g peas (about one light handful in both palms).

Add salt and sake and cook

Rice cooker, regular settingAbout 45 min

Remove just 1 tbsp of the water you added in step 1 with a ladle or spoon (to make room for the sake)
Add 1 tsp salt and 1 tbsp sake and stir from the bottom
Check that the water is at the 2-cup line
Spread the peas on top (do not mix) and cook as usual

How to tell it's doneThe 'done' sound plays.

Mix it all together

Steam 10 min + 1 min

When it finishes, leave it 10 min without opening the lid (to steam)
Mix gently with a rice paddle, turning it over in big strokes from the bottom, without crushing the chestnuts
Taste it. If it is not salty enough, sprinkle a little salt when you eat

ReadyThe peas are not crushed and are spread through all the rice.

If it didn't work out

The peas are wrinkledIt was kept warm too long after cooking. Mix and eat soon after it's done.

The pea skins are toughThe peas were old, or too much time passed after taking them out of the pods. Buy peas in the pod and take them out right before using.

The rice is hardIn step 3 the water was below the line. Next time, fill it to the line.

It is too saltyNext time, use 3/4 tsp salt.

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