Dinner · 60 min · japanese

Sekihan

This is the kind of Japanese dinner you’ll make on repeat — sweet rice and adzuki beans, 60 minutes, big payoff. The macros do the talking: 9g protein, 80g carbs, and 2g fat in every 380-calorie serving. Naturally vegetarian and vegan, it scales cleanly if you are cooking for more than one.

Ingredients

• 2 cups Sweet rice
• 0.5 cup Adzuki beans
• 1 tbsp Black sesame seeds
• 1 tsp Salt
• 2.5 cups Water

Steps

1. Simmer the adzuki beans 20 minutes until just tender but not bursting; reserve the deep red cooking liquid.
2. Rinse the sweet rice and combine with the beans and enough cooking liquid plus water to make 2.5 cups total. The red liquid dyes the rice its celebratory pink.
3. Cook covered on low 15 minutes, then rest 10 minutes without lifting the lid.
4. Fluff gently and season with salt. The rice should be chewy and glossy, the beans intact.
5. Serve warm with a sprinkle of salted black sesame. Sekihan means celebration rice — it shows up at birthdays, graduations, and good news.

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