Bento Business - Green peas in rice

Green Peas in Rice

Ingredients

2 cups rice

2 cups hot water with

1 chicken stock cube, dissolved

1 cup frozen peas

1 tbsp mirin

1 tbsp soy sauce

You will also need a rice cooker for this recipe

Method

As always, you should wash your rice until the water runs fairly clear, then soak for half an hour before use.

Add the rest of the ingredients to the rice cooker, including the rice, chicken stock, peas, mirin and soy sauce. Now all you have to do is put on the lid and cook as usual.

Once finished, use your rice paddle just to distribute the caramelised bottom layer, and you're done!

Notes:

This recipe originally appeared in Harumi's Japanese Home Cooking, which is great for bento recipe ideas. I've tweaked it around slightly to make it easier, and changed sake for mirin, so feel free to use sake if you don't have any mirin in the house.

This is a great recipe which is easy to cook in a rice cooker, and boosts both the colour content of your bento, and the veggie content too. The addition of mirin to this recipe means that the rice will caramelise slightly at the bottom due to the sugar content, but I like these golden flecks in my rice and think it makes another nice contrast to the white and green.