Takikomi gohan

 ( Japanese Rice Dishes ) 

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. /ref>

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 katemeshi. During the [[Muromachi period]],  became popular, turned into a dish called kawarimeshi using ingredients such as barley, beans, and vegetables. Over time, people became creative and made a variety of dishes with seasonal ingredients.
     

is prepared by adding the ingredients, broth and seasonings to raw rice and cooking them together. In contrast, ''[[maze gohan]]'' extra='mixed rice' is prepared by first cooking rice alone, then mixing the ingredients into it.
     

• Takenoko gohan: Rice with bamboo shoots
• Tai-meshi: Rice with whole sea bream.
• Ayu sweetfish]]-meshi: Rice with whole sweetfish.
• Matsutake gohan: Rice with matsutake.
• Kani-meshi: Rice with crab.
• extra='five ingredients rice' or gomoku gohan: Combination of ingredients such as shiitake, bamboo shoots, burdock root, carrots, konnyaku, chicken, or white-fleshed fish. In the Osaka dialect, this dish is called kayaku gohan.
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• : cooked and served in a single-serving pot.
• Kuri gohan: Rice with chestnuts.
• Kufa jūshī: Okinawan cuisine of rice with pork.
• KFC rice: Rice with fried chicken.

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