Archive for the ‘Sides – Rice Cooker’ Category
Seasoned Rice II
This recipe comes from a friend with amazing recipes. I made this on 17 Jun 2022, and it was very well liked by the family, this will be a regular now. I use my basic Cook/Warm, 1 liter (1 quart), rice cooker to prepare this.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- ¼ cup onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup dry Jasmine rice
- 2 cups beef broth, (I use OXO brand)
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
Instructions
- Add 2 tablespoons of the butter to your rice cooker and set to Cook setting, leaving cooker uncovered. When the butter is melted, add the onion. Cook, stirring often, until the onion is almost softened.
- Stir in the garlic, then add the rice. Stir to coat with the butter and continue cooking uncovered until the rice is just starting to toast and slightly brown.
- Add the broth, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and parsley. Stir together. Cover and let the cooker complete the Cook cycle.
- When the cooker switches to Warm setting, unplug or turn off cooker and let rice sit, still covered, for another 5 minutes.
- Open the lid, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter, and fluff with a rice paddle.
- Serve as a side dish with any main dish. Enjoy.
Notes
Variants: 1. Added a diced bell pepper. 2. Add sautéed mushrooms.
Cranberry Seasoned Rice (Rice Cooker)
This is an excellent seasoned rice dish. I made this for the family on 12 May 2022, and the 4 of us devoured this, very tasty rice with the fresh parsley and dried cranberries. I use my small basic Cook/Warm 1 liter (1 quart) rice cooker for this.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ onion, diced
- 1 cup dry Jasmine rice
- 1 bay leaf
- 1½ cups chicken broth
- ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
- ⅓ cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- Add the butter to your rice cooker and set to the Cook setting. When the butter is melted, add the onion. Cook stirring often until the onion nearly softened.
- Add the rice and stir to mix in the butter, continue cooking, stirring often.
- Cook until the rice is just starting to very lightly brown.
- Stir in the broth, add the bay leaf, and cover. Now let the cooker complete the Cook cycle.
- When the cooker switches to Warm setting, unplug or turn off the cooker, uncover and remove the bay leaf. Fluff with a rice paddle then mix in the parsley and cranberries.
- Serve as a side dish with any main dish, enjoy.
Mediterranean Rice (Rice Cooker)
This is an easy and tasty seasoned rice. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1½ cups dry long grain rice
- 2⅓ cups chicken broth, fresh or from powder, Shortcut
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground turmeric
- 2 bay leaves
- black pepper, as desired
- ⅔ cup frozen peas and carrots
Instructions
- Add all ingredients, except the peas and carrots, to your rice cooker. Stir to mix together. Press the Cook button and let the rice cooker complete its cook cycle.
- When the rice cooker switches to Warm setting, uncover and fluff with a paddle, add the frozen peas and carrots, mix in. Cover and leave on the Warm setting for 5-10 minutes.
- When the peas and carrots are heated through and tender, unplug the cooker, fluff again with the paddle.
- Serve as a side dish with any meal. Enjoy.
Notes
Low cost per serving.
Shortcut: Chicken Broth (Pressure Cooker).
Hainanese Rice (Rice Cooker)
Sounds like a good seasoned rice, on my to make and taste list.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1½ cups dry long grain rice, rinsed and drained
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 1½ teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon chicken oil, or chicken fat
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Add all ingredients, except the rice and water, to your rice cooker. Stir together to mix.
- Wash and drain the rice, add rice and 3 cups water to the rice cooker. Stir to mix together.
- Press the Cook button and let the rice cooker complete its cook cycle.
- When the rice cooker switches to Warm setting, unplug or turn off rice cooker, uncover, and fluff with a paddle.
- Serve as a side dish with any meal. Enjoy.
Wild Rice (Rice Cooker)
I prepared this on 26 Jan 2022 and I used my small 1 liter (1 quart) simple 'cook/warm' electric rice cooker. This does take time as there is a lot of liquid. The rice cooker works well and is pretty much hands off cooking.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry, wild rice
- 3½ cups chicken stock, or water
- pinch salt
- 2 teaspoons butter
Instructions
- Rinse the wild rice and place in the rice cooker, add the water, salt, and butter.
- Cover with lid. Set to cooker to Cook.
- Allow cooker to work until it switches to Warm, about 50 minutes or so. Check for tenderness, if still not quite tender, just add another ½ cup of stock or water and set to Cook. When it switches to Warm again, if tender, unplug or turn off the cooker and let the rice sit 10 minutes covered.
- Fluff with a fork, serve as a side dish, enjoy.
Notes
Wild rice is available through Lazada for those in Thailand, at about 650 Baht ($20)/500g (1 lb), this is high cost at about $5 per serving as a side dish but is a great treat once in a while.
Rice A Roni (Rice Cooker)
This is excellent rice, highly recommended if you like seasoned rice. A basic Cook and Warm rice cooker works perfect this. This can be tailored to your liking in many ways. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry Jasmine rice, rinsed
- ⅓ cup dry orzo pasta, or broken spaghetti
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups chicken broth, Shortcut
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Add the butter to the rice cooker pot and place on Cook. Melt the butter then add the orzo. Cook the orzo for a few minutes, stirring, until just starting to brown.
- Add the rinsed rice, broth, and seasonings. Stir together.
- Cover and let the cooker run its cycle.
- When the cooker switches to Warm, remove lid, fluff rice, serve as a side dish and enjoy.
Notes
Low cost per serving.
Shortcut: Chicken Broth (Pressure Cooker).
Variants: 1. Use beef broth in place of chicken broth. 2. Use mushroom broth in place of chicken stock, and add sautéed mushrooms. 3. Add cooked chopped chicken. 4. In place of orzo, use broken spaghetti in ½ to 1 inch lengths.
Used in Recipes Listed on this Site:
- Rice A Roni Casserole, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- BJ's Rice A Roni, made it, GO-TO recipe.
Vermicelli Rice (Rice Cooker)
This is a Middle Eastern/Lebanese dish, sort of, and for those in Asia, this does not use vermicelli rice noodles, this uses vermicelli pasta noodles. If you don't have vermicelli pasta noodles, angle hair pasta will work just as well, in a pinch, spaghetti works too.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups dry Jasmine rice, or your choice of long grained white rice
- ½ cup dry vermicelli pasta, broken into ½ inch or smaller pieces
- 2¼ cups water
- ½ onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons extra light olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Rinse the rice several times until the water runs clear, this is removing some of the starch. When rinsed well, set aside.
- Heat your rice cooker by pressing the Cook switch, add the oil and onion, cook, stirring often the onion until soft.
- Add the butter, when melted, add the vermicelli pasta and stir constantly, until nicely toasted and golden brown. The smell will be that of popcorn.
- When the pasta is golden brown, add the rice and salt and stir to coat with the butter and oil.
- Add the water and stir together, add the lid and let the rice cooker cook a normal cycle. When the rice cooker switches to Warm mode, unplug and leave the rice cooker covered for 15-20 minutes, don't worry, you will still have hot rice.
- Fluff the rice with a rice paddle and serve.
Notes
Low cost per serving.
Variants: 1. Use chicken or beef broth in place of water.
Lemon Rice (Rice Cooker)
This recipe come a good Chef friend and I have tailored it to be prepared in a rice cooker. This is tasty rice. I used my small 1 liter rice cooker for this which is a simple Cook / Warm model. I also doubled the recipe from what is listed. Links to the Shortcuts are listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry Jasmine rice, rinsed and drained
- 1 tablespoon extra light olive oil
- ½ teaspoon lemon pepper, or more to taste
- ¼ teaspoon dried basil
- 1¼ cups chicken stock, homemade or from powder, Shortcut
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice, or lime juice if no lemons availalble
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, room temperature
- pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon ponzu sauce, optional, Shortcut
Instructions
- To your rice cooker, add the oil, rinsed and drained rice, lemon pepper, and basil, set the rice cooker to Cook. You are NOT using the cover yet. Stir to mix the oil into the rice, and stir often as the cooker heats and the rice turns translucent. This will take 3-5 minutes once the the cooker comes up to temperature.
- Now pour in the chicken stock, lemon juice, butter, and a pinch of salt as desired. If using the ponzu sauce, add that now as well. Give everything a stir to combine.
- Cover with the lid, leaving the setting on Cook.
- When the rice cooker switches to Warm setting, leave the cooker covered for 3-5 minutes, then turn off, fluff with a rice paddle.
- Serve as a side dish with any meal.
Notes
Shortcuts: Chicken Stock (Pressure Cooker), Ponzu Sauce.
Indonesian Turmeric Rice (Rice Cooker)
This is an excellent seasoned rice dish, I and the family loved this. I will be using my trusted and simple, Cook / Warm rice cooker for this.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry long grain rice, rinsed
- 1½ cups coconut milk
- 1½ cups water
- 1 tablespoon ground turmeric
- 2 pandan leaves, knotted. if available
- 1 stalk lemon grass, pounded and knotted, or 1 teaspoon ground lemon grass
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 teaspoons salt
Instructions
- Place everything in your rice cooker and stir together.
- Cover and set the rice cooker to the Cook setting. Rice cooker doing its thing.
- When cooker switches to Warm setting, fluff the rice with a rice paddle.
- Serve as a side dish with a main dish of your choice.
Lemon Thyme Rice (Rice Cooker)
Excellent seasoned rice! I use my basic 1 liter (1 quart) Cook and Warm rice cooker. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Equipment
- Rice Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup dry Jasmine rice, rinsed and drained
- 1½ cups chicken broth, Shortcut
- 1 tablespoon lemon or lime juice
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- ⅛ teaspoon lemon pepper
Instructions
- Turn your rice cooker to the Cook setting and melt the butter.
- When the butter is melted, stir in the rinsed and drained rice and coat with the butter, cook, stirring often, to lightly brown the rice, takes just a few minutes.
- Stir in the broth, lemon juice, thyme, and lemon pepper.
- Place the cover on the cooker and allow the Cook cycle to complete as indicated by it switching to the Warm setting.
- Fluff with a rice paddle.
- Serve as a side with any dish. Enjoy.
Notes
Shortcut: Chicken Broth (Pressure Cooker).
