Put a bag of the Happy USA Queen Basmati Rice in pantry, awaiting another meal. When that time comes, you pull it out from the pantry.
Open up the Aroma Professional rice cooker and set inside pot in place. Pull back on the clear lid and notice clean inside waiting for ingredients to be added. Measure out a cup of long-grain rice. That’s enough for a small house dinner.
Measuring and Rinsing the Rice
You measure out one cup of the long-grain rice. This amount work well for a small household dinner.
Add one cup of rice to the stainless steel pot in your cooker (accurate measuring here, please).
Don’t skip rinsing the grain: it matters. Rice cooked in starchy water are gummy and clumpy; no one wants their grains to stick together like that. What they want is fluffy grains. After you measure your rice, it’s time to add the liquid.
You pour the dry grains directly into the cooker’s stainless steel pot.
Accurate measurement are important before you add liquid.
Immediately, you take the pot to your kitchen sink. Using cold water, you rinse off any excess starch from the rice. You swirl your fingers around the grain under the stream.
At first, the water will run cloudy, which is normal. Continue rinsing until the water become both bright and clear. Trust us: It’s worth that extra minute.
Once the rice has been well-drained, pour in fresh water. Here’s the deal with cooking rice like this. It’s only two things. Use two cups of water for every one cup of rice. It is simple to remember.
If you want more or less water, just change amount. The 1:2 ratio will help your basmati rice cook up perfect, not too dry and not overcooked. Carefully measure the amount of water into the cooker. Getting the balance correct take less time then fixing a bad batch.
Then, you pop the pot back into main part of appliance. There is a range of cooking selections on the control panel for different types of grains. For white rice in particular, you simply push the corresponding button.
The display will light up indicating that you have selected right setting. From there, it knows when to turn off and at what temperature to cook. The screen show a total time of about fifty minutes, so you know how much longer it has left.
At this point, the cooker kick in. There’s no more user interaction required. It tells you on the screen that it started to cook and then how long it will take. In this case, it take roughly half an hour.
You step away. Let the machine do its thing. Honestly, waiting is the worst part. Soon enough though, the smell start to drift through kitchen.
Soon 50 minutes have gone by, and while you do other household task, that appliance turns itself off. You pop open the lid and there it is, ready for consumtion.
The rice is fluffy, even throughout the bottom of the pot, with distinct separate grains. Not a drop left in the middle or sides. That make all the difference in serving up this dish nicely on your plate.
To plate the rice, you just use a fork to gently fluff it. The grains stay intact and don’t break apart. It’s light and airy just like good basmati should of be.
What I realy like about this rice cooker is that it take away any of the guess work in making rice. Every time you make rice this way, it come out consistantly great. It is worth it.