If you work long hours at your job, you are already well informed that there is nothing more convenient than having a counter top cooker for preparing meals during the week. Who wants to start breaking out the pots and pan orchestra after work, and then have to clean up all that mess. A one unit appliance is easier.
Some programmable cookers have timers which you can set. However, if you don’t like leaving the food out while you are at work, just begin heating it after you get home. By the time you are ready to eat, your food will be ready to consume.
Rice Cookers
Rice makes a great meal, and is delicious to boot. A serving of brown rice (half a cup) has only 108 calories and contains two and a half grams of protein. Cooked wild rice is only 83 calories, and has three grams of protein to benefit you.
Rice cookers are now becoming more and more popular. Here are some of the popular brands and readable understandable information about them:
- The Panasonic Microcomputer Rice Cooker has a power cord which can be detached if you want to put the cooker on the buffet line at your potluck supper. People say it’s not exactly the easiest one of learn to operate, so just be prepared for a learning curve.
- The Steamer and Rice Cooker by Oster comes from the same folks that brought you the Osterizer. At less than twenty five dollars this one is a bargain. It’s not exactly high tech, but wow, the price is right.
- The Cool Touch Rice Cooker by Aroma makes a large batch of rice (over three times more than the Oster), and the price accounts for that (about 3 times higher as well).
- The Zojirushi can prepare your sushi rice too. If you are prepared to spend a couple hundred bucks, this could be the brand model for you.
- The Cuisinart Rice Cooker looks like it belongs in a pro chef’s kitchen with a sleek stainless steel tub on the outside. It’s not programmable, so keep that in mind.
Rice Recipes
It is easy to whip up rice recipes for supper with only an idea of a recipe in your head.
You can create Rice with Tamarind, Green Peppers and Rice, and even Rice with Lentils.
If you have herbs in your garden, consider Parsley Rice, Basil and Rice, and Rice with Green Onion Scallions.
Spices enhance rice. Rice and Cardamom is a winner.
Try Rice and Black-eyed Peas for some good luck on the celebratory occasion of New Years Day.
Vegetable Rice is called Biryani in South Africa, and is made with onions, ginger, green peas, green beans, and chopped tomatoes.
Rice and Seafood Combo can be made with whatever fresh ingredients you have from the sea. Try it with red fish, shrimp, or oysters.
Left-over venison chopped into bite size pieces makes a delicious main dish with left-over rice and onions.
Don’t forget rice for dessert. Everyone loves a tasty Rice Pudding made with eggs, sugar, milk, raisins, nutmeg, and cooked rice.
Another delicious dessert rice pudding can be made at home by adding grated coconut and cooked mango for a delicious sweet treat.
Whatever recipe you decide to try first, you will be sure to appreciate the hands off elegance and ease of having your own rice cooker small appliance. Once you are adept at the use of this machine, it will be easy to inform others how to do it with your first hand and up to date information.