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Unique fixings perk up rice

"The Electric Kitchen" airing in the second half of April features George Yoshida and "Cooking with Warabi."

"Electric Kitchen" airs at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, 8:30 p.m. Monday, 5 p.m. Tuesday and 6 p.m. Thursday on Oceanic Cable Channel 16. It also airs on Maui at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Calabash Channel 44 (52 in Lahaina) and on the Big Island at 5 p.m. Monday and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on Na Leo o Hawaii Channel 55 in Hilo and Kona.

Here is a recipe from the show. All the recipes from the show, as well as an archive of recipes dating to 1995, are available at the Hawaiian Electric Co. Web site, www.heco.com.

Warabi Mixed Rice

20 stalks warabi (fern shoots)
5 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked
1 tablespoon salad oil
5 dried shrimp, chopped
1 small carrot, minced
2 pieces aburage (fried bean curd), chopped
1 piece konnyaku (Japanese yam cake), finely sliced
1 block (7 ounces) kamaboko , slivered
1 can (6-1/2 ounces) minced clams, drained
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 heaping tablespoon brown sugar
Salt to taste
6 cups freshly cooked rice

Wash, clean and finely chop warabi. Remove stems from mushrooms; dice caps.

In a large skillet, heat oil. Sauté mushrooms, shrimp, carrot, aburage, konnyaku, kamaboko and clams. Combine soy sauce, sugar and salt; stir into the mixture. Simmer 5 minutes. Mix in warabi and rice; cook until heated. Serves 6.

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