Practically, we would like to cook rice by our rice cooker. But sometimes we would like to have a different way. How about making slow cooker rice?

Talking about food would never finish. Most of Asian people main food is Rice. And they need cookware that could be easily operated such as rice cooker. If we have slow cooker at home, could we made slow cooker rice in it?

Of course nothing is impossible. Rice is the easiest food, we could cook. Whatever cookware you have, you could still get the best result of delicious and fluffy rice. It depends on the way we cook them and the proportion of the rice and water. You could also find interesting thing about Pressure cooker rice in our article.

Are you curios making slow cooker rice? Here are the easiest technique for you.

PREPARATION

In order to make the best slow cooker rice, you need below ingredients:

  • Rice : You could choose white rice, long grain rice, and also brown rice. Please be noted that the time of cooking for brown rice is longest than another type of rice
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  • Water : The proportion of water is depend on the type of rice. For examples for 2 cups of white rice (jasmine or basmati rice), we put 2 ¾  cups of water; for 2 cups brown rice, it needs 3 ½ cups of water.
  • Salt : put only 1 teaspoon or a tweak of salt.
  • Olive oil or butter or ghee (optional) : If you choose olive oil, put it in the spray bottle.  For butter, choose unsalted butter for brown rice.

HOW TO COOK

  • Rinse the rice : In order to have fluffier and delicious rice, you should take this into an effort. By rinsing the rice before cooking it, you will wash away the dirt and scratch. This dirt and scratch will make your cooked rice agglomerating. Wash it until the water is clear.
  • Put the rice into slow cooker : If you use olive oil, spraying it above the slow cooker base before putting the rice. Spraying it would help to avoid your rice sticking on the base of the pot.
  • Pour the water : You could look at the proportion on the preparation above.
  • Add other ingredients :  put salt, butter or ghee. Don’t forget to mix them by stirring it.
  • Cook the rice : We would like to remind you to close the lid in order to covering the process of cooking rice. It would take 1 ½ until 2 ½ hours for cooking white rice. And 2 ½ to 3 ½ hours is the approximate time cooking brown rice. Pick HIGH function for the perfect result. It would need 1 – 2 hours more if you set the function into SLOW.
  • Check the rice : You could add another water (a tablespoons) when the rice is still hard but the water is already absorbed. Cooking for 30 minutes more until the cooked rice is tender.
  • Let stand the rice : Don’t serve the rice directly after it is cooked well. Give 5 until 10 minutes stand before serving it.

Well done. If you follow our above recipe, you will have a fluffy and delicious rice. You don’t need your rice cooker to have a good food. Slow cooker rice is another option that you could try beside rice cooker. Nothing is impossible.

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