Ingredients and Prep(Mise en Place!)
- Three Rice Cooker Cups of Glutenous Rice (aka Short Grain Sweet Rice aka 糯米(noh mái or nuò mǐ))
- We used Koda Farms’ California Grown Sho-Chiku-Bai from Sunset Super.
- 1 can of chicken broth (14.5oz / 411g)
- About 10 dried shitake mushrooms soaked in about 1.5 cup of water for at least 30 min. and diced. (0.5 of this goodness will be used later so don’t dump it out!)
- A small handfull of small dried shrimps (蝦米(hā máih) aka 虾米(xiā mǐ)) soaked in the same water as the mushrooms for about 5 minutes and roughly diced.
- This is perfect to soak while chopping mushrooms.
- 3 Chinese Style Sausages diced (白油肠 (bai you chang) aka臘腸 (lap cheong)aka 腊肠)
- We used Kam Yen Jan brand (aka 棧然金 (zhan ran jin))
- A splash of Soy Sauce
Steps
- Delicious Mix
- Cook the Chinese sausage on medium-high heat in a medium pan for a few minutes to release some of the oil.
- Add the mushrooms and shrimp to the pan and let cook for a few more minutes.
- Splash a little soy sauce on the mixture and take off the heat immediately. You want the soy sauce warm and mixed in but not evaporated.
- Rice
- Add three rice cooker cups of Glutenous Rice to the rice cooker and wash.
- Add up to 3 rice cooker cups of Chicken Broth to the pot along with half of a small rice cup of the mushroom/shrimp water from the soaking process. If you do not have 3.5 rice cooker cups of liquid, use water.
- Start Cookin!
- Putting it all together
- Depending on your rice cooker, the timing will vary but the critical point is right when the last of the water is evaporated but the rice is not yet done. In our rice cooker, this point occurs when there is approximately 10 minutes left in the cooking process. Monitor closely but do not open the lid more than you have to!
- When the time is right, pour your mixture on top of the rice and close the lid to let the rice cooking process finish.
- When the rice is finished, mix with the delicious mix of ingredients that you placed on top and finish off with soy sauce to taste(only if it needs it) until things are juuuuuuuust right.
- Eat and have food coma.