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Rice 05

Rice 05 is a salads recipe made with Brown Short Grain Rice, Water, Rice Vinegar, Sugar, and Salt. Scale it up or down for the number of people at the table.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup
• 1 1/4 cup
• 1/2 cup
• 2 tbsp
• 1 tsp

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Place a fine strainer in a large bowl of cool water, add the rice and rice 10 minutes, swish it around a bit a few times.

2. 2

   Drain in strainer and rinse under cold running water.

3. 3

   Combine rice and 1 1/4 cups water in a heavy small saucepan, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low and ignore for 40-45 minutes.

4. 4

   When done remove from heat and set aside, still covered, for 5 minutes. Set another pot of water to boil (for blanching vegetables)

5. 5

   Meanwhile in a none reactive saucepan combine sauce ingredients, simmer 5 minutes and set aside.

6. 6

   When the blanching water boils, blanch the peppers and carrots for 30 seconds at most.

7. 7

   In a small bowl combine the drained blanched vegetables, cucumbers and the sauce.

8. 8

   When rice is done make wasabi paste and add to vegetables and sauce.

9. 9

   Add the rice and toss lightly. Refrigerate.

10. 10

    Crumble the toasted nori sheet into a bowl. In a small skillet lightly toast sesame seeds over a medium low heat for 2-3 minutes.