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	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 This book unlocks the rice cooker's true potential. It thoroughly explains how this appliance works and how to prepare every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean. 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 This book unlocks the rice cooker's true potential. It thoroughly explains how this appliance works and how to prepare every kind of rice, grain, and dried bean. 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. 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It is an invaluable quick reference for grain-to-water ratios and cooker settings for a huge range of grains and legumes. I've made steel cut oatmeal, millet, lentils, buckwheat, and barley - and it's turned out right, the first time, every time. Without the book I would have been guessing and experimenting and probably choking down a lot of not-quite-right food. Rating - Beautiful Book!!! Beautiful book with what looks to be fabulous and unusual recipes. Can't wait to use it. Rating - If you've got money to spend on a LOT of fresh vegetables and fancy spices... ...this might be the cookbook for you. But then why would you be fixing your food in a rice cooker, anyway? I bought this book looking for some simple but good recipes to use in my rice cooker. Instead, most recipes call for a lot of ingredients, including fresh, seasonal vegetables and expensive spices you're unlikely to stock in your pantry. Not to mention all of the dicing, slicing, pureeing, and grinding that goes into preparing these recipes. If you're going to put all of that effort into it, again, ... Read More Rating - Great Cookbook I have had this for a couple of months now and have tried many recipes. All good. Some fantastic! I have no complaints but will say that I have an Z- induction cooker (lucky me) and the instructions that she gives to saute' in the cooker sometimes don't work out so well for me. It'll get real hot for about a minute and then go off and on, so it takes too long and then my cooker is too hot to reset to another setting. (which she suggest doing or let it finish in the cycle I'm sauteing in) It then won't work until ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann

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