Rice Cooker Recipes

The rice cooker is normally used as a tool to cook rice in most Asian families. This is probably one of the first kitchen appliances that we bought when we moved in to our own home. For years, we used it to cook white rice and porridge and on some rare occasions, we cooked some bean desserts with it.

When the pandemic started last year and during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown), we cooked all 3 meals every day. It is tiring to cook 3 meals each day for a prolonged period of time. So we thought of some simple and easy way of cooking some of the meals. And hence, the birth of our one-pot-rice or rice cooker recipe series.

Our good old rice cooker

The very first rice cooker recipe that we experimented was the Ginger Sesame Chicken One-Pot-Rice. We knew that it would work when we started to smell the aromatics when the rice was still cooking in the rice cooker. And it was indeed tasty. We will update the recipe and record a video before posting here.

You can check out the different rice cooker recipes we have created at my Instagram account @Lingomania2021 (https://www.instagram.com/lingomania2021/) or use the hashtag #tscricecooker in Instagram. We have also uploaded some videos of our rice cooker recipes in our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0EWHIM-tfrUCouK2uILqTA/videos). Check out the Rice Cooker Recipes Playlist.

Today, I will share the recipe of the second one-pot-rice recipe that we have created - The Rainbow Rice. We named this rainbow as it is colourful and there are 7 ingredients added on top of the rice. This Rainbow Rice was created in April 2020, during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown). It was created to cheer up people around us. Rainbow is seen after a rainstorm and we hope the pandemic storm will be over soon and reveal the beautiful rainbow. 

Ingredients

1 rice cup        Rice

1                       Tomato

1/2 cup            Sweet corn

1/2 cup            Shiitake mushroom

1                       Small carrot

1/4                   Zucchini or Cucumber

3 strips            Bacon

1                       Egg

Dressing:

1                      Garlic

1                      Shallot

2 tsp               Salt

1 tbsp             Honey

1 tsp               Oyster sauce

1 tsp               Dark soy sauce

1 tsp               Sesame oil

1 tsp               White pepper

220ml            Water

Instructions

1. Dice the shiitake mushrooms, carrot, zucchini and bacon. You can use other ingredients to build your own rainbow.
2. Wash rice in the rice cooker pot. 
3. Build the rainbow on the rice. Place the tomato at the centre. Then add the other ingredients, except egg, around the tomato.
4. Prepare the dressing. Mince the garlic and shallot. Mix the minced garlic and shallot with the rest of the seasoning in the dressing sauce. Mix well.
5. Pour the dressing over the rice.
6. Cook in the normal Rice mode.
7. When the rice is cooked, crack an egg and add into the rice. Close the rice cooker lid for a minute to slightly cook the egg.
8. Then stir and mix all the ingredients with the rice.