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My favorite is preparing enchiladas. First I cook the ground meat in there with a diced onion and let it steam thoroughly til Cooked. Then I remove the ground beef. Add a little oil to thoroughly coat bottom of cooker. Then I add the rolled enchiladas filled with the ground beef mixture add some cheese roll them up cover with sauce and cook!
I was born to Chinese immigrants, so we used this thing almost daily when I was younger.
Chicken, beef, tofu, mushrooms, peas, herbs, onions, even carrots all work. Rice really makes the meal but I imagine you could use just one or a combination of those listed ingredients. For best results, the items should be sliced as thin as possible for thickness actually made them mushier.
My favorite is preparing enchiladas. First I cook the ground meat in there with a diced onion and let it steam thoroughly til Cooked. Then I remove the ground beef. Add a little oil to thoroughly coat bottom of cooker. Then I add the rolled enchiladas filled with the ground beef mixture add some cheese roll them up cover with sauce and cook!
I also like to cook chili in the rice cooker.
It's necessary to brown meat at a higher temperatrure in order to allow the Maille reaction to take place. That's the reaction tha gives us hundreds of interesting compounds that provide the special flavor of browned meat. If you need a lubricant while you're cooking the filled enchiladas add a bit of the fat from the ground beef, not oil which adds an alien flavor. I cook ground beef, or better, ground chuck (15-20% fat) in a rather hot skillet and keep it moving. I drain it afterwards. Then I bake the enchiladas in a regular oven that provides dry heat.
I rarely make enchiladas but mine are better than any Mexican restaurant's.
I love this book! I had been reading his blog on rice cooker recipes for a couple of years so I was really happy when he announced he was writing the cookbook.
My favorite is preparing enchiladas. First I cook the ground meat in there with a diced onion and let it steam thoroughly til Cooked. Then I remove the ground beef. Add a little oil to thoroughly coat bottom of cooker. Then I add the rolled enchiladas filled with the ground beef mixture add some cheese roll them up cover with sauce and cook!
I also like to cook chili in the rice cooker.
This is a really good idea! I don't eat meat but plan to try this with my meatless enchilada recipe.
I don't eat a ton of rice although I do love rice. I have been reading how people will cook other things in the rice cooker that isn't rice, like meat. I have a crock pot. Is there an advantage to having a rice cooker if I don't eat a ton of rice? I read a good recipe for pulled pork to be cooked in a rice cooker. Tell me if it is worth the money or if my crock pot is good enough along with just maki9ng my rice in a pan like I usually do.
a rice cooker is super simple to use. I have a cheap one that wasn't more than 20 bucks and it has lasted for ages. I don't cook anything in it other than rice. we don't eat a lot of rice either but it is fast and easy when we do.
Don't buy a rice cooker to make pulled pork in! You'll do much better with the crockpot you already have. That recipe you saw was just for someone who ONLY has a rice cooker.
What makes a rice cooker handy is that it's automatic. You measure your rice and water into the pot, it cooks the rice and then rings a bell and turns itself down to a stay warm setting, or off, depending on the model.
What makes a rice cooker work is that as long as the rice/water mixture has any liquid left to boil the temperature is limited to the boiling temperature of 212 F degrees. Once the liquid disappears the rice is ready (if the proportion of the measurements were correct). As soon as that happens the temperature rises and a thermostatic mechanism flips the switch and rings the bell. It's a very simple mechanism, simpler than a toaster, and they're very inexpensive to buy.
For most people the decision to buy one or not depends mostly on whether you have room to store it.
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