Sekihan

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup adzuki beans (small red beans)
• 3 cups sweet glutinous rice, well rinsed,soaked for 1/2 to 1 hour,drained (mochi gome **regular rice isn't sticky enough**)
• 3 1/2 cups water
• 1 tablespoon black dry-roasted sesame seeds
• shiso or watercress, if desired (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 in a medium saucepan, combine beans and water; bring to a boil.
• 2 reduce heat to low; simmer 45 minutes to one hour or until beans are soft but not completely cooked.
• 3 cool to room temperature.
• 4 drain beans, reserving the liquid.
• 5 mix the beans, drained rice and water with 3 tablespoons of the bean's cooking liquid.
• 6 cook in rice steamer in the usual manner.
• 7 spread the cooked beans and rice into a decorative shallow dish or laquer tray.
• 8 sprinkle with the sesame seeds, garnish and serve.
• 9 if you don't have a rice cooker, you can cook this is a pot on the stove as you would regualr rice.
• 10 just use the proportion of water to rice given here, not the usual western 2 parts water to one part rice.
• 11 the rice has already been soaked, so it needs less water to cook.