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So, you are coming home after work with some kind of takeout bought on the way, or you are ordering pizza three or four night a week. You can't stand the thought of standing over a stove and cooking a meal, even though you worry about your diet and whether you are getting anywhere near proper, balanced, nutritional meals. What to do?
Maybe the answer is a simple as buying a steamer-rice cooker and learning how to use it to make life a little easier. There are all kinds of steamers, such as Chinese bamboo steamers, the expanding basket steamer that is put in a pan of water and heated over the stove, but the most versitile and convenient is the electric steamer-rice cooker. Especially those with several stackable steaming containers.
T- Fal, for example, makes electric steamers with two or three stackable compartments that permit you to cook several things at once. You could cook chicken, rice and vegetables all at the same time. A complete healthy meal with not much muss or fuss. Or how about fish, couscous, and vegetables?
Whatever you decide to cook, it is healthier than frying chicken or fish, or boiling vegetables until all the nutrients are gone. Another advantage to steam cooking is that you do not need to use any extra fats to cook. All you need is some liquid in the reservoir of the steamer. And the liquid does not have to be water; bouillion can be used, or wine or whatever the imagination can come up with. It might even be fun to experiment with different liquids.
Steamer cooking does not take very long. Broccoli is cooked in 8-10 minutes, carrots in 6-10. You can do white rice in 15-20 minutes and brown rice about 50 minutes. Fish, depending on the size, is ready to eat in 15-25 minutes and chicken takes a little longer, also depending on how much chicken you have.
So, you can come home, put the brown rice in the steamer, go have a nice relaxing shower, come back to the kitchen, put in the fish, prepare one or two vegetables, stick them in the steamer, and in ten minutes supper is ready to be served.
They now have steamers that have timers that can be set to start working just like the coffee makers that have your coffee made a waiting when you get up in the morning. You can have the rice already cooked when you get home so all that needs to be done is put in the fish or chicken while you relax, then pop in the vegetables and all is ready to enjoy.
Do yourself a favor: go out shopping for an electric steamer-rice cooker, or get on the net go to your search engine and type in electric steamers, steamers or steamer cooking and take a look. Order the one best suited to your needs and begin eating healthier.
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