Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Cooking Rice in the slow cooker is a gamble

Basmati rice usually needs 3 cups of liquid for 2 cups of rice.
Cooking basmati rice in the slow cooker 


Peek in on your food whilst its cooking in the crockpot. ALL CLAD (metal) slow cooker cooks differently than a ceramic slow cooker. 

Rice can come out burnt around the edges. Mushy in the middle. Dried up in uneatable chunks. It's not so simple to just dump in rice and cook. If you have a recipe that it is possible, let me know! lorraine.pinkard@gmail.com

 Just an FYI in the slow cooker, if you add chicken

You can use chicken drumsticks, chicken breasts, or chicken thighs, if you do, I recommend leaving the bone in and removing the skin.

You can easily remove the skin yourself. Just pull off the raw skin before cooking -it should slip right off.


If you leave the skin on while the chicken and rice is cooking in the slow cooker, after the cooking time, place the chicken thighs on a cookie sheet and broil for 5-7 minutes or until skin is brown and crispy. Or pan fry on high with coconut oil.



 Rice
A Chinese proverb says "the precious things are not pearls and jade but the five grains"
of which rice is first. What are the five grains and what food or drink can be made from
them?

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4.
5.



Match the following rice dishes or drinks made from rice with their country of origin.
Can you think of any other examples?
paella                   Italy
risotto                  Japan
rice pudding        Pakistan
biriani                  Vietnam
sushi                    Singapore
rice crackers        Japan
sake                     Spain
nasi goreng         UK



Tasty rice pudding
Ingredients
290ml / ½ pt milk
1 tsp* ground cinnamon
1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
85g / 3oz rice
2 tbsp** soft brown sugar

Method
1. Place the milk, cinnamon, vanilla
seeds and pod into a pan and bring
to the boil.
2. Add the rice, reduce the heat and
simmer for 12-15 minutes.
3. Stir the sugar into the pan and
cook for a further two minutes.
4. Transfer the pudding to a serving
dish and serve at once.

Homework: make a rice pudding!

*tsp = teaspoon = 5 ml
**tbsp = tablespoon = 15 ml


CHECK OUT THESE LINKS

http://www.thinkrice.com/pdf/USARiceTeachersGuide.pdf

http://www.thinkrice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/KidsColoringSheet.pdf

http://www.thinkrice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/US-Rice-in-the-Classroom.pdf

http://www.thinkrice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rice101PrepGuide1.pdf






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