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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.
Whoaa… i guess it’s time for me to make full use of my rice cooker!
1 bowl of the your soup please! :D
That looks easy and very delicious. I hardly use rice cooker. I always cook rice in a pot over fire. Need to try this. Thanks very much for sharing.
wow! easy and yummy! i know i can always be inspired by you :D
Where can I get this book? I think it’s a fantastic idea and a great way to introduce people to cooking as well. Great job!
hi, sorry for my late reply. you can find it at Borders, Barnes & Noble and other major bookstores :)
The soup looks excellent! I seldom use rice cooker for rice..strange hah? :-) I find it very practical to use rice cooker to make fungus soup, braised pork, ect.
another rice cooker expert! :D Hmm… I should try braising pork in the rice cooker next time, sounds very do-able.
Right, I always heart tigerfish’s healthy, homey dishes. Indeed, she has got much friendly ideas on using a rice cooker. Your soup looks comforting : ).
I thought only me that cook soup in my rice cooker. Well, I have this multi-functions rice cooker that can cook rice, soup, porridge, etc. Very convenience to use especially when I need to tenderize the meats. Will try your recipe again :)
your rice cooker sounds so high tech! Hope you like it :)
Indeed it is such a versatile took! Makes me think out of the box too. Great test- and tigerfish’s cookbook rocks!
Will the wolfberries lost its nutritious value after soaking?
Guess nobody would have believe it that this sumptuous soup was cooked from a rice cooker. Great idea and thanks for sharing.
I don’t think so, because by soaking, you actually reduce the cooking time. You don’t have to soak very long, it takes about 20 minutes or less. Hope you like this soup when you try it :)
Hi wiffy,
Thank for sharing this wonderful news, by the way can i buy the book from Popular Book shop?
Thanks again!
Catherine
Hi Catherine, not sure about Popular, but I was told the book is sold in Borders and Kino, Singapore. Maybe you can call the bookstores to check if this title is in stock, before heading down :)