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

Hensperger, Beth; Kaufmann, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558322027 ISBN 13: 9781558322028

Publisher: Harvard Common Pr, 2002

Synopsis

A wonderful cookbook, geared for the American kitchen, helps readers to unleash the power of the rice cooker by detailing its many uses; providing simple charts on how to prepare basic rice, grains, and dried beans; and featuring a vast array of delicious recipes, from Turkey Chili with Baby White Beans to Butternut Squash Risotto.

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About the Author

Beth Hensperger, a writer for the San Jose Mercury News, has been educating and writing about the art of baking for 25 years. Taking a cross-cultural approach to traditional recipes, she has authored several cookbooks, including the James Beard Award winner The Bread Bible and the best-selling The Bread Lover s Bread Machine Cookbook. She has been twice nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. 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.

Reviews

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.
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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
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Common Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558322027
• ISBN 13: 9781558322028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368