by Sherwin Huang

A Delicious Rice Cooker Pasta Recipe

Pasta can be one of my favourite foods. However, I only really enjoy it when it’s lovingly home cooked, as it enables the food to be served the minute it’s ready. And the quality of ingredients is easier to verify. Onions and garlic are essential. And mushrooms and bell peppers are excellent vegetables for balancing the meal, both in terms of flavour and nutrition.

This delicious pasta dish can be cooked using a rice cooker. It is suitable for people who do not have hobs at their disposal. For example, I use it in my office, where we only have a microwave and rice cooker.

The meal contains a lot of vegetables, and can therefore be view as healthy from that point of view. However, I like to add a block of cheese, which you may want to leave out. I also used minced beef to add protein. Though I’m trying to cut down on meat and may leave that out too in the future.

Ingredients

Fusilloni Pasta

Garlic

Onion

Basil

Oregano

Vegetable Stock

Olive Oil

Tomato

Mushrooms

Bell Pepper

Cooking Instructions

Take the minced beef out of the refrigerator about 30 minutes before you start cooking. Cold mince is harder to stir.

Add the pasta to the rice cooker. Some rice cookers come with a rubber pad to stop the pasta sticking to the bottom of the rice cooker. If you have one, use it, otherwise don’t worry about it. Cover the pasta with cold water.

Finely chop the onion and garlic. I used 6 cloves of garlic, and 1.5 onions. Add them to the rice cooker.

Chop the mushrooms into quarters and the bell pepper into small 1cm squares. If you want a fine sauce, chop the vegetables into even smaller portions. Add these to the rice cooker.

Chop up the tomatoes. There is no need to remove the skins as they improve the texture of the final result. A tin of tomatos could be use instead or as well.

Season the mixture with salt and pepper. And add the oregano, basil and vegetable stock.

If using cheese, chop it unto 1cm cubes and add it to the mix.

Finally, add the minced beef.

Pour over a healthy amount of olive oil and mix up the food.

Turn on the rice cooker and let it all cook.

Potential Issues

There are a lot of ingredients in this recipe, and smaller rice cookers may not cope. If the rice cooker goes to “keep warm” mode too soon, and the food obviously isn’t cooked yet, then take out half of the mixture and continue cooking the remaining half. The removed mixture can be cooked afterwards or saved for another day.

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Fried Rice Recipe: Easy Meals With Leftovers

When you make rice for dinner, it’s pretty easy to just double the amount that you cook, thus leaving leftovers for the following day, to turn into fried rice. When you look for a fried rice recipe, easy to make, you’ll find a large number of recipes, some complicated, some not so much. But really, you can whip up your very own recipe with very little work.

Fried rice is a great way to feed your family for cheap. You need to start with the base and then you can build from there.

The Basic Fried Rice Recipe: Easy to Whip Up

You’ll need onions, sliced, to start. Fry them up in a little oil, add some more oil once they are translucent and add your rice. The amount really doesn’t matter, however much you happen to have on hand.

Most people add soy sauce to their fried rice and truthfully, you can eat it just like this. But, if you want to create a full meal, you’ll need to add more than just soy sauce to the mix!

Add-ons

Use the basic fried rice recipe, easy to use up leftovers, and anything else you want to add. Open up the fridge, check out what you have in there and then add them. Here are a few ideas.

Meats: Crispy bacon, leftover cooked chicken or beef and even ground beef can all be chopped up and added to the fried rice. Shrimp, crab and other seafood all goes very well in rice dishes like this, as well. You’ll want to add the more delicate meats at the very end of cooking and just heat them through (assuming they are already cooked).

Veggies: Anything goes, really! Carrots, peas, green beans, snap peas, corn, etc. are all prime candidates for your fried rice recipe. Easy frozen veggie mixes are even better, since you can just toss a couple cups in with the rice and you have an instant meal. The only things that are not usually found in a fried rice recipe, easy to remember, are starchy foods, like potatoes and yams.

Flavorings: While soy sauce is the generally accepted flavoring for this dish, you can also add fish sauce, a few drops of Worchestershire sauce or even sweet and sour sauce. The choice is yours!

Toppings: Try sprinkling chopped pine nuts, toasted sesame seeds or sunflower seeds, etc. on top of the rice to create a tastier, more nutritious dish. Herbs and chopped green onions are another great topping.

If you’re looking for a fried rice recipe, easy to whip up for the family, why not try making your own?

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