Rice Cooker anyone?

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My DH has just bought a rice cooker after being convinced that it made much better rice than cooking it in a pan. I assumed it would come with a recipe book but it doesn't, I just wondered if any of you Mumsnetters had any fab rice recipes that can be done in the rice cooker? It is clear from the instructions how to cook plain rice but I wondered if you could do the likes of pilau, savoury rices etc in it?

PS It also steams vegetables if that makes any difference.

I bought my electric rice cooker in Malaysia for the equivalent of 8 quid 10 years ago, lugged it back as hand luggage on my return to the UK and it is still going strong!! Best 8 quid I ever spent. The best rice by far is Thai Jasmine rice - for two adults and a tot I put 3 cups of rice in, rinse 3 times under a cold running tap (washes away some of the starch and stops it being too sticky) Then add 5 cups of water. Perfect restaurant style rice every time. Other stuff to add - lime juice and cardomon or a few strands of saffron to the water, stir it just before switching on. To be honest, I could eat plain jasmine rice on its own all day long.

Happy cooking!

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I've been using one for years as dh is Malaysian and is therefore umbilically attached to his rice cooker. Mostly I just cook plain rice and use it with curries or chinese or whatever.

So long as you keep the volume constant you can use pretty much any liquid that you like or add anything to the water, so for savoury rice you could add a stock cube to the water. I often do what bloss suggests and use chicken stock, which goes nice and crispy at the bottom of the rice cooker. I don't think you could really add vegetables unless they were partly pre-cooked as it usually doesn't take long enough for the rice to cook. Some rice dishes need to be oven cooked and so can't be done in a rice cooker, like biryani (spelling?)

Thank you all, glad to hear it will do more than plain rice. DebL your Jasmine Rice sounds particularly tasty. Can't wait to give it a try now (kitchen still a bombsite, waiting for a Joiner to fit new worktop)!

LOL Bran, my dh is Japanese and also more attatched to the rice cooker than me at times!! Dds too both get yearnings for "our" rice if we're away from it for more than 3 days!!