Japanese Sweet Potato And Rice Shojin Ryori Recipes

This is a vegetarian style of cooking known in Japan as shojin ryori, a Buddhist vegetarian temple cooking. It is known for using ingredients found seasonally to prepare simple vegetarian temple style of cooking. Japanese sweet potato is a bit different from the American version and if you can find it, please use Japanese sweet potato which is known as satsuma imo. But, if you cannot find it, any sweet potato will work fine here since the idea is to boost the nutritional content of white rice in this recipe as well as give steamed rice some sweetness. You can alternately use combination white rice and brown rice as well. I normally cook all my rice recipes using my electric rice cooker.

Provided by Rinshinomori

Categories     Low Cholesterol

Time 30m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

Nutrition Facts : Calories 251.9, Fat 0.4, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 11.8, Carbohydrate 54, Fiber 1.5, Sugar 0.8, Protein 4.5

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This is a really tasty dish which we like as part of a Japanese meal- usually we'll serve with a tofu miso soup, steamed short grain rice and a salad made with Recipe #362130. I'm not sure how many serves but would serve 4 in this style meal. To make it faster, I often microwave the potato for 5 minutes first and leave out the water when baking. This way it's done in about 30 minutes.

Provided by Chickee

Categories     Low Protein

Time 1h10m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 8

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