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Basic rice recipe is to wash a cup of Carolina enriched white rice or other similar enriched rice as Uncle Ben's in a large bowl with hot water

Then strain it with a wire strainer rinsing it with hot water

Then I put the cup of rice in the rice steamer

with 14 ounces of water

two tablespoons of olive oil or other cooking oil or margarine or butter

1 teaspoon of sesame oil

put the inner and outer lids on the rice steamer

I microwave it in my four year old 1100 watt General Electric microwave oven for 11 minutes on the regular power setting

then I let it stand for 5 minutes to finish cooking

then I serve it as is or one can add a small bit about a teaspoon or two of soy sauce or other seasonings

My recipe differs from the one that came with the China Village rice cooker, but by trial and error, I came up with the way I cook it.

However, different microwave ovens have different power, so the cooking time might vary.

One of these days, I might change to brown rice which is suppose to be more nutritious Microwave brown rice cooks faster - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper .

Presently I keep two new 10 pound bags of Carolina enriched white rice and about another pound opened, which is about $5 a 10 pound bag at the Stop and Shop, and I also have about a pound and a half of brown rice, and I also have a 5 pound bag of Della Japanese sushi rice which comes from Arkansas.  I noticed once when I toured the Japanese grocery store which is mostly in the Japanese by exit 5 on I-95 across from the Riverside shopping center in Greenwich, Connecticut that they have lots of expensive imported Japanese rice over $20 a 10 pound bag of real Japanese rice.

If one were cooking brown rice, which I have not tried in the microwave rice steamer, I would recommend off the top of my head using 25% more water or 17.5 ounce of water in the steamer and cooking it for about 50% longer or about 16.5 minutes and letting it stand for about 7.5 minutes to finish cooking.  Although I have not tired it this way, it would probably be close to way to cook it properly.

Per pound rice is cheaper than noodles.