Mushroom Clam Risotto In Rice Cooker (Takikomi Gohan)

• 1/2 cup carrot, peeled
• 1/2 cup 4 shiitake mushrooms or 1 large portabella,
• 1/2 bunch maitake mushrooms, should equal about 1/2 cup when torn
• 2 cups brown rice
• 2 cans clams, 6.5 oz. (184 g) save liquid (Crown Prince)
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce (lite salt)
• 2 tablespoons sake
• 1 tablespoon mirin, (or extra T of sake + 2 teaspoons of sugar)
• 1/2 cup edamame, removed from husks

1. Cut carrot into matchsticks.rnCut shiitake or portabello mushrooms into fatter matchsticks. The stems can be used, just chop a little finer.rnBreak maitake mushrooms into smaller clumps.
2. Wash rice and put in the rice cooker.
3. Drain the liquid from your canned clams into a measuring cup. Add soy sauce and sake (and mirin) into the measuring cup. Now add water to equal the amount of rice you measured. If using brown rice add an additional 1/4 cup water.
4. Put carrots, mushrooms, clams, and liquid into the rice cooker. Select the cycle, switch on. Rice will finish in about 1 hour 15 minutes.
5. About 15 minutes before serving, microwave the edamame. Mix the rice, and add edamame. Close rice cooker and let it steam for 10 minutes.
6. SUGGESTIONS: If you use Clams-in-the-Shell, wash well and drain. About 3/4 -1 pound clams for 2 cups rice. For liquid, if you use water, add 2 additional Tablespoons of soy sauce. Or use bottled clam juice (which does have salt) and just the one teaspoon of soy sauce.rnrnrnYou can saute the mushrooms in a little olive oil and butter, and add before cooking rice, Step 4 , or add to the rice with the edamame, Step 5.rnrnrnYou can substitute 1/2 c. peas for the edamame (more crunch). Stir in right before steaming.rnrnrnYou can substitute white wine for some of the liquid but eliminate the mirin. Remember to add additional soy sauce if reducing the clam broth.

carrot, shiitake mushrooms, maitake mushrooms, brown rice, save liquid, soy sauce, sake, mirin, edamame

Taken from food52.com/recipes/75371-mushroom-clam-risotto-in-rice-cooker-takikomi-gohan (may not work)