Other Ways To Cook With Your Rice Cooker

By Mary | Thursday, October 27, 2011 | 17 Comments

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I was experimenting new recipes over the weekend and I came to a sudden realization that besides using the pots and pans in my kitchen, I can also put my rice cooker to use and cook delicious meals with it. One good thing about cooking with your rice cooker is that the rice cooker practically does all the cooking for you! All you need to do is some preparation plus a little patience, and voilà—your food is ready! This is especially good for busy college students and working people! Who would have thought that rice cooker of yours can cook more than just plain rice? Here are a few recipes I found and modified:

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Jambalaya

2 cups of chicken broth
1 cup of water
1 ½ cups of white rice
1 or 2 cloves of garlic (minced)
½ onion (diced)
½ any type of bell pepper (chunks)
Shrimp and or kielbasa sausage (in chunks–as much as you like)
2 teaspoons of butter
A couple pinches of salt
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 cayenne pepper or jalapeno (diced)

Preparation: Set up the rice cooker, put the rice, broth, and water in.

Heat up pan over medium heat. Add a little oil and sauté the garlic, onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, cayenne pepper or jalapeno for 5-10 minutes then add the shrimp and or kielbasa sausage to cook for another 2-3 minutes.

Throw everything in the rice cooker to cook!

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Soy Sauce Chicken

1 Whole chicken
4 table spoons of dark soy sauce
4 table spoons of regular soy sauce
3 table spoons of rice wine
2-3 table spoons of sugar
2-3 table spoons of water
Salt and Pepper (as much as you like)
1-2 green onion (diced)
A little bit of ginger (sliced)

Preparations: Marinate chicken with ingredients overnight. Put ginger and green onion on the bottom of the rice cooker and place all the ingredients and chicken over it. Press cook and wait! After it is done, let it keep warm for 10-15 minutes before serving.

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Congee (Rice porridge)

1 cup of white rice
8 cups of water
2 cups of chicken broth
1/3 lb pork (strips)
2-3 Thousand year old egg (diced)
A little bit of ginger (julienne)
A little bit of scallion (bits or julienne)
A couple dashes of salt

Preparations: Put all ingredients except the thousand year old eggs. 10-15 minutes into cooking the congee, throw in the thousand year old eggs.

**Instead of pork and thousand year old eggs you can use fish or other ingredients as well. Just make sure to marinate it with a little rice wine, salt and pepper

[Photo Credit: foodnetwork.com, livingroomchef.files.wordpress.com]

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IsaacKojima

If you don’t have a oven (and students in Japan usually don’t), you can use the rice cooker to bake some cake too.
http://www.erniehsiung.com/ Ernie H.

So strangely enough, there’s a cookbook out there for recipes that can be created using a rice cooker — and it was written by Roger Ebert (movie critic with no jaw guy):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0740791427/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=8asia-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0740791427
http://www.bigwowo.com/ bigWOWO

Awesome! These look great!
moye

I wish there was a rice cooker that could automatically make ketchup fried rice. YUMMMM.
maryt

@Ernie H. Wow, I did not know using a rice cooker to cook other food is actually pretty common and I just found out recently…
Takuma

Cooking non white rice meals in a rice cooker?! Blasphemy!!!!
IsaacKojima

@Takuma Not if you have the cake function your Japanese rice cooker.
Yoshi

@IsaacKojima I’ve totally heard about making cakes with your rice cooker. I keep wanting to try this myself, but never get around to it. Probably a small fear of messing it up. hehe
IsaacKojima

@Yoshi I remember, when I worked in a French restaurant, my chef told me: “in cooking, fear just slow you down”.
geishaschooldropout

Wow, this is brilliant! Thanks for the recipes and the inspiration. I think I might have to go buy a more “traditional” rice cooker, though…I have one of those pressure cooker ones. Do you know if these will work with those kinds of rice cookers?
brazybear

I use it for nacho cheese.
maryt

I am happy that you enjoyed this post :]! These recipes should work with any basic rice cooker! Although if you want to cook a whole chicken, you may want to buy a bigger rice cooker :/.
maryt

I am happy that you enjoyed this post :]! These recipes should work with any basic rice cooker! Although if you want to cook a whole chicken, you may want to buy a bigger rice cooker :/.
maryt

I am happy that you enjoyed this post :]! These recipes should work with any basic rice cooker! Although if you want to cook a whole chicken, you may want to buy a bigger rice cooker :/.
maryt

@brazybear nacho cheese eh? that sounds interesting! how would you make that with a rice cooker?
maryt

@brazybear nacho cheese eh? that sounds interesting! how would you make that with a rice cooker?
Elliott

… that’s not a jambalaya.

first of all, you’re missing celery, which, along with the onion and the peppers, form the trinity of creole cooking. secondly, why would you use water when you’ve already got stock and tomatoes? there’s a bunch of stuff that you should add that’s missing but you don’t strictly need, such as bay leaves, worcestershire sauce (or fish sauce + vinegar), hot sauce, etc…

… but the most offensive element here is you call for kielbasa sausage. REALLY?? a polish sausage in creole cuisine?? blasphemy! andouille is the *only* way to go!

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