Are these ingredients suitable to make O-Sekihan?

2 comments

1. Mochi rice might be more suitable as it’s a truly sticky rice and it’s slightly sweeter than normal which works with the beans and chestnuts (an occasional add-in). Adding in sugar doesn’t work for this.

2. Sekihan is traditionally made with mochi rice (glutinous short-grain rice). “Sushi rice” is kind of an arbitrary designation as there’s no such cultivar, but it’s a label generally used to describe oryza sativa japonica (a.k.a. short-grain rice). It will certainly be edible, but the texture won’t be right.