Easy Sekihan in a Rice Cooker

• 540 ml Mochi rice
• 350 grams Uncooked white rice
• 100 ml Dried adzuki beans
• 1 dash Salt
• 1 dash Black sesame seeds

1. Put the adzuki beans and the water into a pan to heat.
2. When it boils, remove the water immediately (to remove the scum).
3. Add new water and simmer over low heat until the beans become soft.
4. Add water a few times midway, and continue to simmer.
5. When the beans become soft, drain in a colander or sieve.
6. Do not discard the cooking water; let cool.
7. Rinse the mochi rice with white rice and drain in a colander or sieve.
8. Add the cooking water from the adzuki beans and the mixture of rice into a rice cooker.
9. Add water a little over the 4 cup "okowa" (sticky rice) mark.
10. Mix well, and let it soak for minimum 1 hour.
11. Switch the rice cooker on the "okowa" setting.
12. When done, mix to fluff the rice lightly with a spatula and to mix in the adzuki beans.
13. (Transfer into an "ohitsu" wooden rice container if you have one.
14. This will help to remove any excess water.)
15. Dish it up, sprinkle with salt and black sesame seeds, and enjoy!

white rice, adzuki beans, salt, black sesame seeds

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/151665-easy-sekihan-in-a-rice-cooker (may not work)