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.9月に美味しい旬の野菜. (n.d.). Retrieved November 05, 2020, from https://foodslink.jp/syokuzaihyakka/syun/monthly/septembre-ve.htm Ingredients will vary based on the seasonal vegetables and fish.
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.
Related dishes Ryukyu Islands (, rice with pork) is a type of Takikomi gohan in Okinawan cuisine.
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See also List of Japanese dishes , Japanese fried rice dish, also known as , Japanese rice bowl topped with beef and onion
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