One of the healthiest side dishes you can have with a meal with rice and when made right, it can be one of the most delicious side dishes you can have as well. Most of us just get the processed rice that we can prepare in less than 10 minutes. Yes, these taste really good, but they don't really have a whole lot in the way of nutrition. It is much healthier to cook rice the old-fashioned way, but very few of us actually have the time, because it does take quite a while and usually, it is an all-day job. But if you use a rice cooker, you may find that you are making rice a lot more often and are getting a lot more creative, so your rice dishes taste even better than the prepared ones that you love so much.
There are a lot of kitchen gadgets that people get and never use. Then there are those kitchen gadgets that people may think they will never use but end up using all the time. Two of these gadgets that are often used are rice cookers and juicers and both can be small enough to fit right on your counter top.
How to Use a Rice Cooker
Using rice cookers is just as easy as using juicers and maybe even easier. All you do is add your rice (of course, brown is the healthiest), water and whatever you want to season it with and let the rice cooker go to work. One of the really great things about using a rice cooker is that unlike when you cook rice in the oven, which can take two to three hours, using a rice cooker will really shorten your time in the kitchen, giving you plenty of time for those things that are a lot more important than cooking. You can actually prepare and cook a healthy rice dish in less than a half an hour when you use one of these handy little kitchen gadgets.
When it comes to recipes, there are so many delicious dishes that you can make with rice that you will never run out of great meal ideas and these are meals that everyone in your family, including your kids, will love to eat. Rice is really healthy and loaded with protein and you can always throw in a few vegetables and your kids won't care, because you can just tell them that it is stir fry or something else that is fun to eat and they will probably go for it. And if you use juicers to make delicious juice to go with the rice meals you make, you can be sure that your family will be getting plenty of good nutrition.
Depending on your needs, there are many different types of rice cookers and they come in different sizes.
