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Chicken & Daikon Soup (Rice Cooker Recipe)
Last week, I had the great pleasure of meeting tigerfish from teczcape when she came back to Singapore for a few days. Tigerfish recently published a cookbook, The Everything Rice Cooker Cookbook, and I was so happy to receive a signed copy from her. Prior to tigerfish’s cookbook, the only thing I know how to cook in the rice cooker is … rice! In this recipe, the rice cooker is successfully used to cook a hearty pot of Chinese chicken & daikon soup.
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This is a nourishing soup with cooling & qi-balancing” properties. Daikon, like luo han guo (monk’s fruit), is known to be beneficial for soothing a sore throat. It is also great for cleansing (detoxification). With the rice cooker acting like a slow cooker, the chicken meat was so tender it was practically falling off the bones. This recipe can be easily adapted by whatever equipment you use to cook soup – may it be a slow cooker, a normal soup pot on the stove, or keeping the soup warm for long hours in a thermal pot.
About the cookbook: There are more than 300 rice cooker recipes in this collection. Now I know it’s not just rice you can cook in a rice cooker. You also don’t need a high-end rice cooker to cook the dishes. All the dishes, I was told, can be whipped up in a traditional and inexpensive “keep warm/cook” rice cooker. I think this book is perfect for those into one-pot cooking, and extremely useful for people who wish to expand their range of cooking with minimal appliances (imagine students living in hostels). The book brings out the versatility of one-pot cooking teaching you techniques such as steaming, stir-frying, stewing and braising, all in the rice cooker. Now I know that besides rice, I can also cook pasta, congee, seafood, desserts, curries, stews, vegetables and more.
I only use my rice cooker for rice, one-pot rice dishes and porridge. Have to try this!
Excellent idea! Keep these one-pot ideas coming!
Our rice cooker is even more simple – Cook, and Off. No “Warm”. What to do?
Still, I’d love to get my hands on that cookbook!
I think still can. I’ll let the expert advise you haha
I may be an expert for cook/warm but not cook/off :p….
The idea of “warm” function is that the rice cooker is still cooking at low heat…so if it is cook/off…it may not work too well for an extensive range of recipes.
actually the cook/off cookers (which is the type I have) is actually cook/warm. It is only off when you unplug it. So to keep warm simply keep the cooker plugged. (This is often how I end up burning the bottom of my rice. Like if I walk away and it finishes before I get back to the kitchen)
My rice cooker has a porridge/soup function. Do I still need to follow the steps in the recipe or just use the soup function to cook? Thanks.
Hi, you can use the soup function :)
I’m the same as you – all I knew how to cook in the ricecooker was – rice! But I have been curious to try other things ever since I heard of this book. I am going to have a look at the bookstores for it – surely it will come in handy.
wow! so fantastic. i almost always do my soups the old school way – pot, please – but recently I’ve been missing it because I can hardly stand to keep checking on the pot hour after hour as it boils. this sounds great, but intriguing enough to want to get the book to see what the other 299 recipes are! i think it’ll make mom happy too (she’s also working so it might be nice for her to see how convenient it is to whip up something nice for dinner fuss free)
Wiffy, lucky you able to meet up with tigerfish and also got her book :). I guess you are sure busy trying out the many recipes from this book, very look forward.
what a nice meeting it must have been! I know, I have only cooked rice in rice cooker too :) this soup looks delicious!
This soup looks so nourishing and refreshing~ it must be very good for our health as well :)
Wow, tigerfish really got talent in cooking and also compiling her recipe book. 300 recipes, wow!
This soup looks really nice!
Wiffy, I cook porridge in my rice cooker but now I can try something different. This recipe is great and makes me want to get the recipe book this weekend.