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Rice Cooker: Steamed Fish
Steamed fish is way better than it sounds.
Because when I think of steamed fish I’m like, EHHHH….
But then I read this little ditty in the last book (well, second to last) I finished, and was like, THIS SOUNDS AWESOME. Mostly because it’s an absurd short cut that uses a rice cooker to steam fish AND make rice, which I am totally into.
Here it is:
Mahi Mahi (however much you can eat/fit into your rice cooker)
Rice (again, how much do you feel like eating? Put that much in your rice cooker)
For the fish rub:
2 Tb soy sauce
2 Tb sesame oil
1 Tb minced ginger
Green onions and cilantro for garnish
Start the rice cooker. While the rice is cooking pour the fish rub mixture over the fillets and let them soak up the goodness. Wait until the rice has about 6 minutes left (I couldn’t really tell, so I just forced the button into the “cook” position since I waited until the rice was pretty much ready to eat. It didn’t matter.) and then lay the mahi mahi on top of the rice. Close the lid and let the fish steam until it flakes apart with a fork. Garnish with chopped green onion and plenty of cilantro.
That idea was taken from Judith Jones’ The Tenth Muse, which I really enjoyed for it’s insight into the world of cook bookery and essentially the beginnings of America’s food renaissance. It was rife with celebrity chefs (the likes of James Beard and Julia Child… the originals, not exactly Anthony Bourdain) and jaunty trips to Paris and classy restaurants, which essentially just made me long to be a pivotal food writer in the 60s. After I finished that, I took to Cleaving (Julie Powell), and finished it in no time flat. Although it was a great read as a memoir, her writing about butchery is difficult to follow and left me nearly as clueless as I was before the read. Granted, it’s probably pretty hard to describe in writing how to break down a whole cow, and I’m a visual learner, so I should probably just watch a documentary, I guess. Anyone heard of any good butchery movies?
Now I’m onto the last read, Cheesemonger(Gordon Edgar) and am already infatuated with his self described “cheese punk” lifestyle. What am I going to do when I finish this one and I’m out of food memoirs?
21 Things You Never Thought you could do with a rice cooker
This is pretty sweet: I've only done a cour, but need to try out a bunch of these recipes:
21 Surprising Things You Can Make In A Rice Cooker
It’s time you outsmarted the machine.
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A rice cooker can cook more than rice.
Yes, a standard electric rice cooker is designed to bring rice to a boil, sense when it needs to reduce to a simmer, then lower the heat again to keep rice at serving temperature without overcooking it.
That may sound like a very smart little machine, but YOU ARE SMARTER. You can trick the thermostat (just press "Cook" again) and manipulate that nonstick cooking surface to do whatever you want!
In her excellent New York Times piece on the topic, Julia Moskin explains it just right: "Cooking foods other than rice in a rice cooker is like baking a layer cake in an Easy-Bake oven: best approached with patience, curiosity and something to snack on in the meantime."
But it's worth the experimentation, especially for people who don't have a full stove or a large kitchen. Just take it from Roger Ebert (RIP). Put a bunch of ingredients in there and give it a go. Melt a little butter, add onions or shallots, and use it the same way you might a big dutch oven. Know that the heat doesn't get very high. Here are some recipes to try.
Put the ingredients in, turn on the rice cooker, come back 15 minutes later and you have a meal. Find the recipe here.
Using chicken stock makes for some interesting mac and cheese. Find the recipe here.
Yes, you can even make delicious chocolate cake. Recipe here.
No more burnt quinoa! Find the recipe here.
Find the recipe here.
Find the recipe here.
Rice cookers are surprisingly great for poaching fruit. Find the recipe here.
So easy! Find the recipe here.
Find the recipe here.
Recipe here.
A complete meal in one pot! Find the recipehere.
Find the recipe here.
Find the recipe here.
Other veggies would be good too. Find the recipe here.
Making caramel in a rice cooker is seriously impressive. Find the recipe here.
Recipe here.
This is brilliant. Find the recipe here.
This is kind of like a big vegetable pancake. Find the recipe here.
This video is from the end of an episode of the popular Japanese manga turned anime seriesYakitate!!, about a boy on a quest to create a national bread for Japan. Get the full translated recipe at WikiHow.
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