A nice change from risotto. Try a mix of different wild and store-bought mushrooms like crimini, shiitake, chanterelle, and porcini for flavor and texture.
This savory mushroom dish is packed with umami flavor from the mushrooms, dashi, and tamari sauce. Serve it as a main or side dish.
A heavy bottomed pot with a tight fitting lid may be used instead of an Instant Pot.
EQUIPMENT: Instant Pot
きのこご飯 Kinoko Gohan
Cuisine: JapaneseDifficulty: Average4
servings20
minutes40
minutesIngredients
1 stick unsalted organic butter, softened
1 teaspoon yuzu juice
2 cups white or jasmine rice, Japanese short-grain rice is best
16 oz (about 2 cups) assortment of wild and store-bought mushrooms, sliced; small ones may be left whole; reconstitute dried mushrooms first
1 1/2 cups prepared instant dashi
2 tablespoons tamari sauce
2 tablespoons mirin
2 tablespoons sake
1 teaspoon sea salt, divided
1 tablespoon minced garlic from a jar
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 green onions, sliced diagonally
black and white sesame seeds (optional)
Directions
- Set up Instant Pot with inner pot.
- Prepare yuzu butter by combining yuzu juice with butter. Wrap with plastic wrap and store in freezer.
- Put rice in a large bowl. Add water to just cover it and then drain rice in a sieve. Return to bowl and wash for 15 seconds using your fingers. Add water to rinse and immediately pour off the cloudy water. Repeat 2 times.
- Place rice in Instant Pot.
- Add dashi, soy sauce, mirin, sake, 1/2 teaspoon salt, garlic, and ginger. Stir gently until rice is evenly distributed.
- Carefully arrange mushrooms on top so they will look pleasing when cooked.
- Close lid, turn Venting Knob to Sealing. Pressure Cook on High Pressure for 4 minutes, then Natural Release for 10 minutes. Turn Venting Knob to Venting to release remaining pressure. Open lid.
- Immediately add 2 tablespoons, cut into cubes, of yuzu butter. Reserve 4 sliced tablespoons for serving.
- Very gently mix mushrooms and melted butter into rice.
- Transfer to individual bowls. Sprinkle remaining salt over. Top with a butter slice and optional sesame seeds. Sprinkle onions over.
- Remaining butter is delicious in other dishes.
