Takikomi gohan
is a Japanese rice dish seasoned with dashi and soy sauce and mixed with mushrooms, vegetables, meat, or fish. The ingredients are cooked together with the rice. The dish is consumed by people in Japan around the fall season since many root vegetables and mushrooms are harvested during this season in Japan. Ingredients will vary based on the seasonal vegetables and fish. Since the dish has nutritional value, and uses a small amount of rice with vegetables and proteins, some Japanese people eat it for dieting purposes.
History
was created during the Nara period. Rice was scarce then, so people conserved rice by adding millet or other cereals, wild vegetables, yam or Japanese radish, creating an early form of called. During the Muromachi period, became popular, turned into a dish called using ingredients such as barley, beans, and vegetables. Over time, people became creative and made a variety of dishes with seasonal ingredients.Difference from
is prepared by adding the ingredients, broth and seasonings to raw rice and cooking them together. In contrast, maze gohan is prepared by first cooking rice alone, then mixing the ingredients into it.Variations
- : Rice with bamboo shoots
- : Rice with whole sea bream.
- : Rice with whole sweetfish.
- : Rice with matsutake mushrooms.
- : Rice with crab.
- or : Combination of ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, burdock root, carrots, konnyaku, chicken, or white-fleshed fish. In the Osaka dialect, this dish is called.
- : cooked and served in a single-serving pot.
- : Rice with chestnuts.
- KFC rice: Rice with fried chicken.