Cooking in Rice cooker
(Japanese)

by Alma
(Tokyo)

I bought my Japanese rice cooker after I lived in Japan for a while. I remember sitting in a restaurant with two Japanese women friends.

One of them was telling me how her daughter would not eat anything else for breakfast but the traditional rice & Miso soup.

She told me about the smell of the rice filling the house, a smell that represented home for her child.

Fast forward a few years later - Now I cook much more than rice in my cooker. Turns out you can steam vegetables and even fish in the rice cooker. So, you practically have a whole lunch cooked within 20 min without you having to watch it. I usually turn it on and go out to take my kids from school.

But my favorite recipe is this:

Put rice as you wish in the rice cooker, Peel 1 sweet potato and cut it into small pieces. Add thyme and salt.

Don't forget to let the rice stand in water for at least half an hour before cooking it.(as Japanese women do).

Enjoy!
Alma