How to Cook Delicious Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker

Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker.

You can have Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker

1. Prepare 540 ml of Mochi rice.
2. Prepare 350 grams of Uncooked white rice.
3. You need 100 ml of Dried adzuki beans.
4. You need 1 dash of Salt.
5. Prepare 1 dash of Black sesame seeds.

Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker step by step

1. Put the adzuki beans and the water into a pan to heat. When it boils, remove the water immediately (to remove the scum). Add new water and simmer over low heat until the beans become soft..
2. Add water a few times midway, and continue to simmer. When the beans become soft, drain in a colander or sieve. Do not discard the cooking water; let cool..
3. Rinse the mochi rice with white rice and drain in a colander or sieve..
4. Add the cooking water from the adzuki beans and the mixture of rice into a rice cooker. Add water a little over the 4 cup "okowa" (sticky rice) mark. Mix well, and let it soak for minimum 1 hour..
5. Switch the rice cooker on the "okowa" setting..
6. When done, mix to fluff the rice lightly with a spatula and to mix in the adzuki beans. (Transfer into an "ohitsu" [wooden rice container] if you have one. This will help to remove any excess water.).
7. Dish it up, sprinkle with salt and black sesame seeds, and enjoy!.