Takikomi gohan
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Takikomi gohan is a Japanese rice
dish seasoned with dashi
and soy sauce
along with mushrooms, vegetables, meat, or fish. The ingredients of takikomi gohan are cooked with the rice; in a similar preparation, maze gohan, flavorful ingredients are mixed into cooked rice. Takikomi gohan is often called gomoku gohan. Loosely translated it means "five ingredients mixed rice." The contents often revolve around seasonal availability and can include matsutake mushrooms, bamboo shoots
, fresh soybeans, chestnuts, or oysters. Burdock
root is also a common complement.
Rice
Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...
dish seasoned with dashi
Dashi
Dashi is a class of soup and cooking stock, considered fundamental to Japanese cooking. In 1980, Shizuo Tsuji wrote: "Many substitutes for dashi are possible, but without dashi, dishes are merely à la japonaise and lack the authentic flavor." Dashi forms the base for miso soup, clear broth, noodle...
and soy sauce
Soy sauce
Soy sauce is a condiment produced by fermenting soybeans with Aspergillus oryzae or Aspergillus sojae molds, along with water and salt...
along with mushrooms, vegetables, meat, or fish. The ingredients of takikomi gohan are cooked with the rice; in a similar preparation, maze gohan, flavorful ingredients are mixed into cooked rice. Takikomi gohan is often called gomoku gohan. Loosely translated it means "five ingredients mixed rice." The contents often revolve around seasonal availability and can include matsutake mushrooms, bamboo shoots
Menma
is a Japanese condiment made from lactate-fermented bamboo shoots. It is a common topping for noodle soup and ramen.Menma is also known as shinachiku ....
, fresh soybeans, chestnuts, or oysters. Burdock
Burdock
Burdock is any of a group of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium, family Asteraceae. Native to the Old World, several species have been widely introduced worldwide....
root is also a common complement.
Variations
- Tai-meshi: rice with whole sea bream
- AyuAyuThe or sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis, is an amphidromous fish, the only species in the genus Plecoglossus and in family Plecoglossidae. It is a relative of the smelts and is placed in the order Osmeriformes...
-meshi: rice with whole sweetfish - Matsutake gohan: rice with matsutake mushroomsMatsutakeMatsutake is the common name for a highly sought after mycorrhizal mushroom that grows in Asia, Europe, and North America...
- Kani-meshi: rice with crab
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