In addition to cooking rice, you can also use the rice cooker to make super convenient steamed dishes. Today, the kitchen tips section of TasteVN will send you an article summarizing 8 delicious and easy steamed dishes using a rice cooker for your family, so stay tuned!
1 Steamed Eggs
The steamed egg dish is one of the easy-to-make meals using a rice cooker if you don’t have a steamer available at home. The even heat distribution of the rice cooker will help your eggs cook evenly and become golden, delicious, and appealing.
The eggs after being steamed in the rice cooker will be evenly cooked, glossy, and visually appealing. The taste of the creamy, soft steamed eggs, combined with the aromas of meat, fresh milk, and the subtle sweetness of mushrooms and slightly sour tomatoes will make you fall in love instantly!
2 Steamed Fish
Steamed fish is a nutritious dish that is a great suggestion for a day when you are unsure what to cook for your family.
Nowadays, rice cookers have a separate steaming function to save time, and steamed fish is easy to prepare with a rice cooker.
You just need to clean the fish, marinate it with various spices, and place it in the steamer to cook; you can enhance it by steaming with various vegetables. The steamed fish is tender, fragrant, and does not have a fishy smell. The fresh fish meat is sweet and very easy to eat.
3 Steamed Buns
Steamed buns are a type of bun often used for quick, convenient, and nutritious breakfasts. Besides using a steamer, you can simply steam the buns using a rice cooker and the accompanying steaming tray.
After kneading, proofing the dough, and rolling the filling inside the buns, you steam the buns for 20 – 25 minutes on the cook setting, then take them out and enjoy while they are still hot.
Steamed buns have a soft and chewy outer layer, and the filling inside is delicious and aromatic.
4 Sticky Rice
Sticky rice is a dish that is often cooked with a rice cooker because it helps you save time in preparing the sticky rice and you don’t have to adjust the cooking time and temperature too much.
You can freely prepare many types of sticky rice such as gac sticky rice, mung bean sticky rice, sticky rice with mung beans,… delicious and appealing. The grains of sticky rice are evenly cooked, soft, and the distinctive flavor of each type of sticky rice will give you a breakfast full of nutrients and energy.
5 Rice
In addition to using a rice cooker to cook traditional white rice, you can creatively enrich your rice dishes by combining them with other ingredients and spices to create delicious and attractive rice dishes.
The rice dishes cooked in a rice cooker are evenly cooked with each grain swelling evenly, the ingredients are soft, fragrant, and sweet, and it also saves a lot of preparation time. The rice, after cooking, remains warm and will surely captivate you.
6 Steamed Chicken
Steamed chicken is a familiar dish that is easy to eat and easy to prepare, even with just a rice cooker. After cleaning the chicken thoroughly and marinating it with spices, you place the chicken in the pot along with the other ingredients, then press the Cook button to cook for 40 – 45 minutes.
After the cooking time, your chicken will be perfectly steamed and tender. The fresh and juicy chicken meat is complemented by fragrant lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves.
What are you waiting for? Quickly prepare this steamed chicken dish using a rice cooker to treat your family!
7 Steamed Tofu with Asparagus
Steamed tofu with asparagus is a wonderful combination of creamy tofu pieces with fresh green asparagus, delicious and appealing. Now it’s even simpler with just a multifunctional rice cooker.
The method to prepare steamed tofu with asparagus is also very easy; you just need to mix the spices with the white tofu and asparagus, then place them in the rice cooker to steam for 15 – 20 minutes, and then enjoy.
Rest assured that the enticing flavors this dish brings will captivate you!
8 Chicken Liver Pâté
Chicken liver pâté is a common dish that easily combines with other dishes to enhance the deliciousness. Instead of spending time with a traditional steamer, you can use a rice cooker to save additional steaming time.
After preparing the ingredients and blending the chicken liver pâté, you place the pâté in the rice cooker to steam for 40 – 50 minutes, then spread a layer of butter on top and store the pâté in the refrigerator for 7 – 10 days to enjoy gradually.
Above is a collection of 8 delicious and easy ways to steam using a rice cooker that TasteVN has sent to you. Hope you will have the chance to showcase your skills so the whole family can enjoy these delicious dishes!
