Cook the Book: Soy Rice and Chicken

Name: Cook the Book: Soy Rice and Chicken
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, squashed; 1 slice thin slice of gingerroot, cut into thin strips; 4 Tbsps oil, divided; 828 milliliters regular rice; 6 servings Salt; 1 Handful dried shiitake mushrooms, the small variety (if large, cut into strips); 1 (rice cooker measuring) cup soy sauce; 3 Tbsps soy sauce; 118 milliliters Japanese sushi rice; 4 1/2 (rice cooker measuring) cups water; 1 white onion, sliced into half-rings

This recipe serves 6. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 10g of protein, 10g of fat, and a total of 557 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and vegan diet. Head to the store and pick up garlic cloves, regular rice, oil, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Wash the sushi rice and soak thoroughly in water for half an hour. Put aside.

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Sushi Rice

Water

Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in 3/4 cup soy sauce. Put aside (soak until soft).

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Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

Soy Sauce

In a nonstick pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil, then sauté the ginger. Quickly add in the chicken pieces with 2 tablespoons of soy sauce (to give the chicken color). Stir-fry until the chicken is cooked. Set aside on a plate and let cool thoroughly; this is important.

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Chicken Pieces

Soy Sauce

Whole Chicken

Ginger

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Drain the sushi rice of water. Wash the ordinary rice clean and drain of water, too. Remember to drain both rices well.

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Rice

Water

Using your hand, squeeze the shiitake mushrooms of soy sauce, but mind that you do not waste the soy sauce because it will be used afterward.

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Shiitake Mushrooms

Soy Sauce

In the same nonstick pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil. Sauté the garlic, the the onion, and then the mushrooms.

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Mushrooms

Garlic

Onion

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Put in all the rice, the sushi and the regular, and also the 3 tablespoons of soy sauce. Stir-fry until the rice is evenly coated with oil and soy. Don’t take too long in stir-frying the rice (less than a minute).

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Soy Sauce

Rice

Cooking Oil

Pour the rice mixture and the chicken into the rice cooker.

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Whole Chicken

Rice

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Rice Cooker

Pour in 4 1/2 (rice cooker measuring) cups of water. Also pour in the soy sauce that you used to soak the dried shiitake mushrooms.

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Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

Soy Sauce

Water

Rice

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Rice Cooker

Add a dash of salt (only a teeny bit).

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Salt

Let stand to cool for about 5 minutes or more, all the while stirring to dissipate the heat. Dissipating the heat is important so as not to mess with the gauging system of your cooker.

After cooling, begin to cook the usual way in your rice cooker.

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Rice

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Rice Cooker