Japanese

Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame)

Name: Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 2 cups short-grain rice; 3 tbsp wakame; 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds; 1/2 tsp salt

Yuki @yuki_1993

Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Low sodium Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups short-grain rice
3 tbsp wakame
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Rinse the rice and cook with 2.5 cups water as usual.
Soak the wakame in water until softened, about 5 minutes, then drain and chop finely.
Fold the wakame, sesame seeds, and salt through the hot cooked rice.
Let it rest a few minutes, covered, before fluffing and serving.

Watch how to cook Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Wakame Rice | Seaweed Gohan Recipe | wa's Kitchen Play the video

Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Buri Daikon (Yellowtail and Daikon Simmer)
  
  30 min
Something to sip
- Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
  
  15 min
The cooked vegetable
- Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce)
  
  20 min
The sharp little thing
- Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger)
  
  2 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame) carries sesame. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	Yes	Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 78 g
Fat: 2 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 300 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Wakame Gohan (Rice with Wakame) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.