Hello and welcome back to In The Kitchen With Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to cook rice in
a rice cooker.
Also, I am going to do a short little product review of my rice
cooker by Aroma.
It's really easy to do if I can do it.
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First, I want to point out I love rice cookers.
I've had my rice cooker for over 10 years and it is still
going strong props to Aroma for their very nice rice cooker.
They're not paying me to do this and they didn't give
me this one.
Is this one I've had for over 10 years.
And first of all, what does the rice cooker do?
It's going to just is an all in one solution for cooking rice.
Usually you have to you would do like a pot.
Like I grew up cooking rice in a pot and you would wash your
rice and rinse it and wash it, rinse it until it came.
The water came out clear and then you would put the rice in
and then the water and you would do it on the stovetop.
One thing I really love about the rice cooker is you just put
everything in there and then you turn on this little button
cook and it does this thing.
It turns it off when it's ready to go.
No fuss at all.
And you can walk away and let it do its thing.
What I really like about this Aroma one and there's a lot of
variety of rice cookers out there that have this as it
comes with this steamer steamer basket on top,
which is really neat.
And what you can do is you can put your rice in the rice
cooker and then you put vegetables like broccoli or
carrots or something like that on top, put on the lid and the
vegetables get done the same time.
The rice is everything is cooked all in one.
And then just add like a protein if you want and you
have a meal ready to go.
Easy peasy.
Love it.
So how do you use it.
Well, really simple.
We just take this off.
I'm not going to use
the vegetable steamer at this point.
I'll move this in closer.
What we'll do is we will take one cup of rice.
Or two cups or three cups, whatever you want to do,
depending on the size of your rice cooker, and we'll put
it in there.
Now, this is enriched a long grain rice.
You don't normally need to wash it, prewash it beforehand
depending on your rice.
You may want to wash it and rinse it a few times and get
any kind of like pesticides or a like gross.
Sometimes I'll be like little rocks or things in there,
just the bends, and then we'll take one and a half
cups of water.
Kind of the general rule of thumb is for every one cup U.S.
standard cup of rice, you do one and a half cups of water.
And I always use filtered water,
filtered water.
If you're especially because my tap water is gross and since
the rice is being cooked in the water, you need
good water.
So there you go.
Use filtered water or use really tasty tap water.
Boom.
And then put your lid on and then all you do is turn it on,
push this down
and it's on and it's going to do its thing and cook.
You just walk away from it and come back when it comes turns
off or you could prep your protein or whatever you
want to serve.
But the one thing I also want to mention is once you turn it
on and it starts to cook, don't touch the lid.
That'll get really hot.
That's why there's a nice handle for you.
And don't obstruct this whole this is the venting hole
for the steam.
All right.
And don't go opening up the lid halfway through,
that's going to, you know, cause it to cook longer.
And it winds up being about 15 to 20 minutes and it'll be
ready to go, and then eventually this will just pop
up and the light will change from cook to just warm.
And then we know that the rice is done.
Now you can take the lid off.
Don't touch the glass.
Just take this off.
We'll be steam that comes out and then I will normally take
like a ladle, just come in here
and just scrape it a little bit nice, fluffy.
Oh, yeah.
Perfectly cooked rice every time.
Look at that.
And that is how you a perfect rice every time using a rice
cooker and a short little look at this rice cooker by aroma.
I really love rice cookers.
I own this, like I said, for over a decade now and have
used it quite a bit.
It's been a good workhorse for me.
Now the rice is ready to be used in whatever dish that you
need that cold rice.
If I was going to eat this plane, I would season it.
Of course, put some butter in there.
Salt, pepper, garlic powder.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
If you want to pick up a rice cooker down below, I'll put a
link where you can pick up the newer model of this one.
They're pretty cheap, 15 to 25 bucks somewhere around there.
Not bad if you cook rice all the time.
I really recommend using a rice cooker.
Also, I love how this has the vegetable steamer on top so I
can do my rice and vegetables all in one and walk away and
come back and I'm ready to go super easy.
I'm Matt Taylor.
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