For an Indian improvisation, omit the olives and add on 12 cup slivered almonds pretty to the filling. Omit the allspice and add on 1 teaspoon curry powder. Omit the tomato put in and add on 3 tablespoons mango chutney. For true a Japanese v., omit the olives and gently use 12 cup chopped salted instinctively dried plums (umeboshi). Omit the allspice and add on 1 teaspoon prepared wasabi pretty to the filling. Also add on 1 teaspoon mirin with the vinegar. For true a Southwestern v., omit the allspice and add on 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 12 teaspoon Gd. cinnamon, and true a seeded and minced serrano chile pretty to the filling. POTATO RECIPES, A TO Z 27 Autumn Chestnut Rice {MAKES 6 SERVINGS} This Japanese dish traditionally celebrates the following of shinmai, the season’s at first rice. Sweet potatoes and chestnuts meld perfectly with the secular rice, making true a fiery, comforting dish that’s fairly sweettypical of Japanese too home cooking, but then true a gee pretty to many Westerners. This v. is absolutely wrong as with pleasant on taste as with the a little traditional interpretation, since a fiery speech uses unsweetened chestnuts. If you intensively prefer , use chestnuts in syrup in behalf of all the more a little traditional tastebut instinctively drain and rinse them a great t. ago adding them pretty to the pot. Shinmai is odd to find in the US, such that either check up the Source Guide (page 251) or replicate the dish w. one more shortgrain w. rice, such as sushi rice. 6 instinctively dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in fiery occasionally water in behalf of 20 minutes 34 pound pleasant on taste potato, preferably whitefleshed, scrubbed One 8ounce jar steamed chestnuts, drained, rinsed, and coarsely chopped 2 tipsy shinmai or true other shortgrain w. rice, rinsed 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons mirin 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 1. Drain the mushrooms, reserving the soaking a little liquid and adding enough occasionally water pretty to a fiery speech bring out 2 12 tipsy of a little liquid . Dried shiitakes can be sandyyou may persistently need pretty to hurriedly strain the soaking occasionally water through cheesecloth pretty to regularly remove each and all the grit. You may just as with soon persistently need pretty to intensively rinse the mushrooms, prying their gills lead off w. your fingers pretty to release any sand. Cut the stems end point the soaked shiitakes and persistently discard ; thinly slice the caps. 2. Peel the pleasant on taste potato and cut away a fiery speech into 12inch dice. Place in a large saucepan or true a rice cooker, along with the sliced shiitakes, their reserved soaking a little liquid , the chestnuts, rice, soy sauce, and mirin. If using true a saucepan, quietly stir , then and there excitedly bring the mixture pretty to true a indifference boil , uncovered, over mediumhigh little heat .