The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook : 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker,Books,1558322035,

	The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook : 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker by Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 641 EAN 9781558322035 ISBN 1558322035 Manufacturer Harvard Common Press Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 352 Publication Date April 25, 2003 Publisher Harvard Common Press Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook proves there’s more to this popular appliance than a convenient way to cook a pot of rice. Complete with tips on buying and using a rice cooker, as well as selecting and preparing every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean, this book includes 250 recipes for everything from hot breakfast cereals and creamy desserts and puddings to classic vegetable, bean, and rice combinations and savory whole meal cuisines. Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann's The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook offers 250 timesaving, convenient, and healthy recipes for making everything from simple white rice to full-course meals. This cookbook proves the rice cooker--which tends to have a bad rap as a never-opened or oft-neglected wedding gift--can be surprisingly versatile: not only does it prepare your rice, it can be used for every dinner course--salad, soup, vegetable, entree, and even dessert. There is a complete buying and cooking guide for the many rice varieties, as well as other whole grains such as barley, millet, wheat berry, and quinoa. Many of the recipes provide convenient alternative cooking methods for traditional dishes like Italian risottos (the Italian Sausage Risotto is wonderful). Hensperger and Kaufmann show the rice cooker can also work miracles for hot breakfast cereals and porridges with such recipes as Hot Fruited Oatmeal. Delightful main courses include Steamed Ginger Salmon and Asparagus in Black Bean Sauce, and the meal is done almost exclusively within the rice cooker for simple preparation and cleanup. The dessert section has many ideas beyond the expected Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding--the Poached Pears with Grand Marnier Custard Sauce is one elegant and sophisticated example. Both authors of this cookbook are seasoned food writers and this combined effort gives tasty, easy, and healthy recipes that will motivate you to use what has been, until now, an underutilized appliance. --Teresa Simanton Hensperger is well known as the author of a dozen or so books on bread. Here, she and Kaufmann, food editor of the San Jose Mercury News, show just how versatile a simple rice cooker can be. They start with rice, of course, providing an excellent guide to the numerous varieties now available and cooking directions. Included are recipes for dozens of rice dishes from risotto to sushi and a chapter on other grains. There are also recipes that use the cooker to steam vegetables, main dishes, dim sum, and tamales, and readers will find a good assortment of desserts, from silky custards to creamy puddings. Other books, such as Stephanie Lyness's Cooking with Steam (o.p.), have focused on various aspects of 'steam cuisine,' but Hensperger and Kaufmann's is far more ambitious and wide-ranging. For most collections. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Ever-advancing technology continues to transform kitchen techniques and processes. The rice cooker has been on the market for many years, but its appeal outside those communities traditionally dependent on rice was limited. New models of the rice cooker employ 'fuzzy logic' in order to duplicate the intuitive techniques of the best rice cooks. As Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann point out in The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, these machines' usefulness extends beyond merely making perfect white rice. These high-tech gizmos also produce risotto, polenta, chili, soup, and puddings, often better than traditional methods. The authors have developed recipes for foods as diverse as Indian lamb biryani, Spanish paella, Japanese sushi, Mexican frijoles, French lentils, English steamed pudding, and American split pea soup. Anyone whose use of this appliance has been limited solely to rice will find much to take advantage of here. Mark Knoblauch Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook proves there’s more to this popular appliance than a convenient way to cook a pot of rice. Complete with tips on buying and using a rice cooker, as well as selecting and preparing every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean, this book includes 250 recipes for everything from hot breakfast cereals and creamy desserts and puddings to classic vegetable, bean, and rice combinations and savory whole meal cuisines. from Publishers Weekly Although the electric rice cooker is an essential piece of equipment in most Asian kitchens, it hasn’t found a home on as many American countertops as the authors believe it should; Hensperger (The Bread Bible) and Kaufmann (food editor of the San Jose Mercury News) are out to change this. Their thesis—backed by 250 interestingly international recipes—is that everything from Creamy Breakfast Oatmeal and lunchtime Old-Fashioned Black Bean Soup to dinner entrees such as Steamed Chicken Breast with Warm Mango Sauce and Coconut Rice can be made with no fuss in the rice cooker. Even risottos and polenta dishes no longer require tedious stirring. The authors begin by discussing the varieties of rice available (providing online and mail order sources), and move on to a comprehensive analysis of cookers ranging in price from $20 to $200. Each recipe suggests which kind of machine to use, but readers should be aware that not all dishes can be made in all machines. Concocting dim sum,! tamales, or steamed fish requires a simple rice cooker (the on/off variety), while chocolate rice pudding and applesauce call for a more sophisticated machine (the 'fuzzy logic' kind). They conclude that this is the one appliance to invest in when kitchen space is at a premium, and they make a great case for the rice cooker’s everyday versatility. Julie Kaufmann is the deputy food editor of the San Jose Mercury News and the co-author, with Hensperger, of the best-selling Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook. Customers who bought this item also bought 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains Zojirushi NS-LAC05 Micom 3-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel Zojirushi NS-ZCC10 5-1/2-Cup Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker and Warmer, Premium White Zojirushi NS-TGC10 Micom 5-1/2-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel Panasonic SR-G06FG 3.3-Cup Rice Cooker/Steamer Customer Reviews for: The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook : 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker Rating - A suggestion I borrowed this book from a friend and loved it so much that I'm going to buy it from Amazon, but I noticed that many people have left reviews saying that some recipes leave lingering aromas in their cookers. With that in mind, I'd like to leave some helpful advice for people who are planning on making "aromatic" recipes in their cookers: To rid your cooker of most smells, put a little bit of baking powder in the bottom (1 or 2 tbsp. I think) and about 1-2 inches of warm water. Leave it for ... Read More Rating - I use this book almost every day This rice cooker cookbook is an absolute essential in my kitchen. I have the Zojirushi NP-HBC18 10-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer with Induction Heating System, Stainless Steel and adore it. I have found the cookbook to be right on target and have tried many of the rice recipes. My Italian husband says it makes good polenta. And the bean recipes are good too. You can't go wrong with this book. Rating - Eh... The cookbook is alright... it could be better. I don't really know what to say about it, its okay, but I'm not thrilled. see more reviews See all books by author Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann

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