One Pot Rice Cooker Meal

5 from 22 votes

This is a super easy and hearty One-Pot Rice Cooker Meal you can make with your rice cooker! It’s a great way to pack in those vegetables and protein and also use up any produce you have left. You’re free to use any vegetables or protein of your choice to make this.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian, Chinese, East Asian, Filipino

Servings

Calories 442 kcal

Equipment

Rice cooker or pot with lid

Ingredients

Rice

1 cup short grain rice/sushi rice, or other rice of choice
1/2 to 1 tbsp soy sauce or more to taste
1/2 to 1 tbsp dark soy sauce optional for colour
1-2 tsp sugar optional for a bit of sweetness
1 tbsp vegetarian oyster sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 cup water equal part/1:1 ratio with the rice

Vegetables & Protein (totally up to you!)

2 cloves garlic minced
1 scallion chopped
1/2 medium carrot diced
4 shiitake mushrooms or other mushrooms of choice
1 head bok choy chopped
2 tbsp edamame
Diced vegan ham
Diced bell pepper

Other options:

Corn
Vegan sausage
Smoked extra firm tofu
Other vegetables of choice

To finish

Sesame seeds for garnish
Chili garlic sauce or chilli oil or other hot sauce of choice, optional

Instructions

Wash your rice 2-3 times until the water starts to run clearer. Drain excess water.
In the rice cooker pot, add the rice, soy sauces, sugar (if using), sesame oil, veg. oyster sauce, and water. Mix well.
Add your vegetables and protein over the rice. Cover your rice cook and set to cook.
Once cooked, mix everything together. Feel free to season with more soy sauce to taste, if needed. Serve your rice with some sesame seeds and chili sauce/chili oil of choice. Enjoy!

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Notes

RICE TO WATER RATIO

I used short grain or sushi rice for this recipe. You're free to use medium or long grain white rice too! The rice to water ratio is 1:1 for white rice. For brown rice and black rice, I usually double mine to 2:1 for the water to rice ratio since these types of rice usually requite more water to cook.

If you're using brown or black rice, do note that these usually take longer (sometimes double the time) to cook compared to white rice. The vegetables and protein you mix-in will cook for much longer too so these can overcook or turn mushy.

I personally would add the likes of vegan ham or sausages and have no problem leaving these on for double the time. But for vegetables and other protein, you can add this halfway through cooking. If you have a see-through glass lid on your rice cooker or are able to see if the rice grains are half-cooked (still very wet & starchy but are starting to get plump), you can add in the vegetables/ protein and cover the rice cooker again to allow to cook.

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