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Claypot Salmon Mushroom Rice

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Rice seasoned with sukiyaki sauce, shiitake and shimeji mushrooms, and fresh salmon cubes cook together in a Japanese claypot for a delicious meal. Excluding the soaking time for the dried shiitake, total cooking time, including prep, is 20 minutes.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Soaking time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 2 people

Equipment

  • Claypot

Ingredients
  

  • 2 to 3 shiitake mushrooms dried
  • 4 to 6 one-inch piece kombu
  • 1 tablespoon sesame seed oil
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • ½ cup Japanese rice unrinsed
  • sukiyaki sauce (available in Asian groceries)
  • 100 grams shimeji root ends cut off and discarded
  • salt
  • 300 grams salmon fillet cut into one-inch cubes
  • sliced scallions to garnish (optional)

Instructions
 

  • In a sauce pan, boil a cup and a half of water.
  • Drop in the dried shiitake and kombu.
    Adding kombu to mushroom soaking water
  • Turn of the heat and leave to soak.
  • Pour the cooking oil in your claypot and heat.
  • Saute the garlic until aromatic.
    Sauteeing garlic in a claypot before adding rice
  • Stir in the rice and cook until every grain is coated with oil.
  • Season with two tablespoons of sukiyaki sauce.
    Seasoning rice in claypot with sukiyaki sauce
  • Ladle in a cup of the mushroom soaking water.
  • When boiling, cover the pot and cook for seven minutes.
    Adding mushroom soaking liquid to rice in claypot
  • Meanwhile, take the rehydrated shiitake, cut off and discard the stems, and slice the caps thinly.
  • Uncover the claypot, ladle in another quarter cup of mushroom soaking water, and scatter the shiitake slices and all of the shimeji on top of the rice.
    Adding shiitake and shimeji to rice in claypot
  • Sprinkle a little salt on the mushrooms.
  • Top the mushrooms with the salmon cubes then sprinkle salt on the fish.
    Adding cubes of salmon to rice and mushrooms in claypot
  • Cover the claypot and continue cooking for another seven to eight minutes or until the rice and fish are cooked through.
  • Sprinkle in the scallions, if using, then stir the contents of the claypot.
  • Taste and add more sukiyaki sauce, if needed.
  • Ladle the claypot salmon and mushroom rice into bowls, and serve immediately.
Keyword Mushrooms, Rice Bowl, Salmon