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Shutterfly · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Seoul

This has probably been discussed to death already, but i am just thinking of dinner and was wondering if any of you knew some easy recipes to make in your rice cooker. Recipes that have ingredients that are readily available and such. Cooking everything together in a rice cooker saves you alot of dishes!

mithridates · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:

Sure. Get one of those pasta things at the convenience store that you usually heat up in a pot or in the microwave. Put that in and then put a slice of cheese on top five or ten minutes later.

Or

You can also steam fish...I don't like cooking fish but I know people that do.

Or

If you have kraft dinner a rice cooker makes much better kraft dinner than in a pot.

Or

You can cook up just rice, put some of those little sausages in with it and then eat them together with kim/seaweed. Take a square of kim, put some rice on top and a little sausage, put a bit of cheese on top of that and repeat. Eat with kimchi too if you like.

I hate cooking anything that takes over fifteen minutes so I've developed a lot of weird recipes over the past two years...

waggo · Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: pusan baby!

do you steam fish in a rice cooker then ? How do you go about doing that?

inexhile · Joined: 18 Feb 2003

I would often steam chicken in a rice cooker.
Just throw in the pieces with some garlic and a little water. it was the tenderest chicken I've ever eaten. It can be a bit stinky though, I used to put my cooker on the balcony for the chicken.

Grotto · Joined: 21 Mar 2004

rookies

Rice cooker dishes

Rice, veggies, garlic and ginger and chicken. Add in pepper and some soy, cup of rice and some h2o and away you go.

Can of tomatoes, (or 2), onions, peppers, mushrooms, carrots, garlic...whatever else you want, chicken, or pork sliced thinly. Let the rice cooker go for about 20 minutes then add in a cup of rice and some H2O.

Rice, cream of mushroom soup and chicken kicks butt.

Shutterfly · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Location: Seoul

My rice cooker is on an automatic timer that i cant change. How do you go about that? Do you just keep turning it back on?

teachingld2004 · Joined: 29 Mar 2004

Ah, the joy of cooking in a rice cooker. Nothing burns. If it can be cooked in a pot on top of the stove, it can be cooked in a rice cooker. (you can't simmer tho).
Wanna make soup? Have a party with yourself. veg soup? Chicken soup? Beef soup? Have fun.

Best beef soup I ever made was in a rice cooker. Bought some mystery bones. (who knows what they were, but for 5,000 won they sure couldnt have been dog cause thats too cheap). Put the bones in the rice cooker, cut up a few carrots, some onlions, garlic, ginger, italian seasoning, put water in (leave 3" of room om top) and press go. After one hour look at it. If the water goes down alot, put in some more. cook for another hour, then push up the button, or how ever you shut it off. Voila....soup.

Wanna make terrific pasta sauce? Can tomatoe paste, 3 cans water, chop garlic, onlion, italian seasoning. some lemon juice and some sugar and salt....Voila! Cook for one hr.

Wanna make awesome tea? Jujubes(ok,(I think that is what those dark red prune like hard things with the big seed in the middle is called), ginger, cinnamon, one or 2 oranges. (or don't use oranges)
Take about 10 jujubes, take the pit out, chop up about 1 tablespoon of fresh ginger, shake in some cinnamon, cut up an orange, peel and all. fill up the rice cooker with water. (remember to leave about 3") cook for 1/2 hr, strain it and wow.

Oh yea, you also can cook rice in it. Try 1/2 white and 1/2 brown. Or all brown. Or rice and barley. or rice and chopped up anything. (well, not body parts)

Enjoy your rice cooker. It is a good friend to have.

panthermodern · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Taxronto

You can make a wicked jambalaya in a rice ccoker.

1 1/2 c. uncooked rice
1 lb. shrimp or crawfish
1 stick butter, melted
1 lg. onion
1 c. bell pepper
3 ribs celery
2 tsp. Cajun Spice
2 cans beef broth
2 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. chili powder
2 tsp. garlic powder
1-2 tsp. cayenne pepper

Combine all ingredients in the rice cooker and cook on regular cycle.

1 lb. shrimp or crawfish
1 can broth (chicken)
1 med. onion
1 med. bell pepper
1 1/2 c. raw rice
1 pot garlic
Parsley
1 stick butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients together in rice cooker and turn on. After bell rings, let stand for 10 minutes before serving. Works well with leftovers.

OR go here:

http://www.mealsforyou.com/cgi-bin/recipeGadget?gadget.ricecooker

mithridates · Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:

I've even put potpourri (sp?) in a rice cooker to humidify and make the place smell nice. After ten minutes or so a big spout of perfumed vapour comes out the top and makes the whole apartment smell wonderful.

xtchr · Joined: 23 Nov 2004

Hi there,
I'm keen to experiment with my newly acquired rice cooker.
Does anyone have any non-rice recipes? Has anyone tried to cook bread/loaf/cake type things in their rice-cooker?
Any ideas or recipes for sweet or savoury foods would be great.

Thanks

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

I used to make this quite a bit when I had a rice cooker, it's bachelor chow but tastes better than the sum of it's parts.

Two scoops of rice, one can of tuna, some chopped up mushrooms, sliced raw ginger, a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce, and water to make the liquid up to what it would be if you were just cooking rice.

Hit the switch, and when it pops up again you're ready to eat.
If the rice is too hard you didn't put enough water in- add a bit, set the switch and wait again for the pop up.
If it's too soft you added too much liquid- umm, use less next time.