Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Lazy Mum's way to cook porridge using rice cooker

My Part Time maid come every wednesday. By 1 hour time after she leave my house, the upper living room already look like tornado came and left. The next day, all the rooms also will be messy. And 3rd day the living room downstairs and the kitchen is all messy. How come I never clean eh ? I clean Fridays and also on Mondays. Fridays is not that bad but Monday is disaster day. Cos I have 3 guys to mess the entire house during weekend O.O

So most of the time, I won't be on on Mondays. I'll be busy from 7.15 am until 2pm. By then I gotto catch up on my work.

I still cook lunch for my kids and  Mondays are usually porridge day cos I cook it this way.
I double boil my porridge together with their snack in the rice cooker. Why double boil?
1: my rice cooker doesn't have the cook porridge function
2. the water will boil and it flows out and its everywhere. Porridge water is very hard to clean....
3. the cover will be filled with the rice and its very hard to clean
4. I'm lazy to wait for it to boil and then open the cover for the porridge to cook.

So how to cook the porridge using a rice cooker?
step 1: You place whatever ingredient you want in your porridge (mine is the peanut, corn and siu yoke porridge) into a big bowl
step 2: you add rice with enough water to cook porridge
Tips: you can even use left over rice to cook porridge. My aunt who live in NZ told me she used to freeze left over rice and then use it to cook porridge.
step 3: add salt or leave it bland for lil babies
step4: fill yr rice cooker with some water. How much water? double of your "water level for cooking rice"
Step 5: cover and go n do your own stuff. The rice cooker will set to warm mode once the water is gone. By then your porridge is done.

There, this is how a busy lazy mum's way to cook porridge.

18 comments:

  1. Hahaha...tornado in your house. Kids and hubby are good in messing up. Same like mine! Good idea doubled boiled the porridge especially you don't have the time.

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  2. I did that too. Fast and easy

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  3. Wah! I didn't know porridge can cook in this way. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. ok..gotta keep this bookmarked so that I can do this when I am maidless!

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  5. wa, in fact, it's a lot of work already, i also have porridge monday, after a weekend of pigging out, i just use the rice cooker :)

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  6. oh, I dont know this way leh.. thanks for sharing... :)

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  7. oh. thanks for sharing. i always have to keep an eye on the porridge and it drives me nuts. Even now, sometimes, I almost burnt my porridge!! This is better.

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  8. lol..this is THE way I make it also.

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  9. pandai nya... can save washing, can save beras, save electricity...and still good to eat!! got side dish some more.. wow..

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  10. how about the peanut? soft? or did you soak it before?

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  11. Yeah I didn't know rice cooker can double boil. Last time I used a small slow cooker to cook porridge.

    The slow cooker was free from bonus link. Very useful.

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  12. Thanks for the tips! I didn't know I could use my rice cooker to double boil porridge.

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  13. Sasha, this is not called lazy but EFFICIENT

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  14. same here tornado everyday. and i only have one lil monster!

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  15. same here tornado everyday. and i only have one lil monster!eh i never tried cookin porridge like this. thanks for the tip!

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  16. wah...i din know it can work this way with a normal rice cooker. last time we always boil for hours till everything leak out. now my mum and i bought the rice cooker for porridge. btw, will the water inside dry up or not?

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  17. Wah, how innovative!

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  18. this is not lazy lar....
    this is creative n also healthy food...

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