Rice is the staple of the Asian diet, meaning that to get good at cooking Asian food you must learn your rice varieties. Long grain, Medium grain, Jasmine, Arborio, Sushi, Basmati and Brown rice! there are so many choices you can make! This is a guide for choosing which varieties of rice are best suited for cooking Japanese and will explain a little bit about why to make sense why there are so many varieties.
If your like my parents you have always boiled your rice in a pot like pasta and then strained it so you have never had a chance to use a rice cooker. If this is you then this is the perfect guide for you as I will show you step by step how to make perfectly cooked rice with minimal effort. No more standing over stove tops with a seive. Lets start with this "How-to" guide to cooking rice with a rice cooker.
Have you ever thought about rice for breakfast? However been deterred by all the preparation and waiting time!! That's why we have the PROGRAM FUNCTION! Set the time you want the rice ready by, hit a few buttons and BING! you have rice for breakfast. Well.. once you learn how!!
Have you ever seen a Japanese Rice cooker and thought "Wow! it looks like a space ship! But how am I meant to cook rice in this?". If so this is the right guide for you! When I arrived in Japan, I felt a HUGE change in my diet. From a High protein + Vegetable, Medium Carbohydrate and Low fat diet to a High Carbohydrate, not much else diet. This has changed a lot about me and I have had to re-train my innards to cope. Also it has made me train myself how to cook the best rice and what varieties to choose! Read read below to learn some vocabulary you will need to survive in Japan, survive using a Japanese rice cooker and survive on delicious rice! Now first the Japanese word for Rice cooker: Sui - Han- Ki 炊飯器 すい はん き 炊 - Cooking 飯 - Rice 器 - Tool Pretty logical right?
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