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Satsumaimo Gohan (Japanese Sweet Potato Rice)

Satsumaimo Gohan (Japanese Sweet Potato Rice)

Satumaimo Gohan or Japanese Sweet Potato Rice is a popular rice dish to make at home when satsumaimo is in season in the fall and winter. Naturally sweet and somewhat sticky satsumaimo go really well with steamed rice. It is so easy to make if you have a rice cooker at home, and you only need 5 ingredients. All you need to do is to put all of the ingredients in the rice cooker and push the button! Salt is all you need for flavor, but adding sake will enhance the aroma. If you don’t have sake or don’t want to use it, you can skip it. Satsumaimo Gohan is great to serve with grilled fish or meat and any seasonal vegetables. Enjoy the taste of the season with this easy and delicious rice dish!

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Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet Potato Pie

Japanese Sweet Potato Pie (スイートポテトパイ) is a popular fall dessert when sweet potato is in season. Most Japanese bakeries carry some kinds of sweet potato pastries, bread, or desserts. This sweet potato pie is made with frozen puff pastry sheets that can be found at any supermarkets. Freshly boiled Japanese sweet potato (Satsumaimo) is mashed and mixed with butter, sugar, and milk, and sandwiched in the puff pastry sheets and baked. It’s so simple to make for breakfast or an afternoon snack.

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Miso Soup with Satsumaimo Sweet Potato

Miso Soup with Satsumaimo Sweet Potato

Today’s miso soup uses Satsumaimo Japanese sweet potato.(さつまいも) Satsumaimo is a great vegetable for sweet dishes and desserts, and it works in miso soup very well too. You can add meat and other vegetables to this, but we wanted it to be simple here so that the taste of sweet potato is accentuated in the dish. Enjoy the flavor combination of Satsumaimo’s mild sweetness and savory miso. Hope you like it!

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Kinpira Sweet Potato Recipe

Kinpira Sweet Potato

Kinpira Sweet Potato (さつまいものきんぴら) is braised sweet potato seasoned with Soy Sauce and sugar, just like Kinpira Gobo or Kinpira Carrot.  This is a great small side dish that goes very well with any kind of entree, fish or meat.  Or make it as a snack to have with tea in the afternoon.

Kinpira usually means Kinpira Gobo which is braised burdock root and carrot cooked in a sweet and salty sauce, but here we made it with Japanese sweet potato.  Japanese sweet potato has yellow meat with purple skin, and it is quite dense and sweet when cooked.  The American counterpart, often called a yam, has orange flesh, is less starchy than the Japanese kind, and has more water content.  It is much easier to find Japanese sweet potatoes at local stores today, and you can most likely find them at American supermarkets.  If you can’t try any Asian market.

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Daigaku Imo Recipe

Daigaku Imo

Daigaku Imo is Japanese candied sweet potatoes.  In Japan, it is more a snack or dessert than a sweet potato side dish that belongs to a meal like sweet potatoes in American cuisine.  Daigaku Imo is something your mom makes for an after school snack or tea time for the family.  Scrumptiously glossy, sweet, and hearty – it’s one of everyone’s favorites.  That said, Daigaku Imo could also be an interesting alternative to the usual sweet potato or yam casseroles that are fixtures in holiday meals in the US.

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Yaki-Imo Recipe

Japanese sweet potato

Yaki-Imo is baked Japanese sweet potatoes.  Japanese sweet potatoes, Satsuma Imo,  usually have purple skin with white flesh, but the inside turns bright yellow when it’s baked.  Japanese sweet potatoes in winter are so sweet just by themselves that there is no need to add any sweetener or anything.   Yaki-Imo is a very simple and wholesome snack for anybody at anytime.

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