Add a litre of water to your Thermomix
Madame Thermomix has been getting very steamy very often lately. Don’t worry – this is simply because Thermomix makes it so fast and easy to eat healthy steamed food!
One of my favourite things to steam in the Thermomix is rice. It’s so very simple even a man can make it come out right every time 
Just weigh the rice into Thermomix’s internal steamer basket, give it a quick wash and wet, and then “Bob’s your uncle” which means voilà ! Perfectly steamed rice in 20 minutes with no effort, while you do something else. You can make as little as a single serving of rice, or up to 400 g uncooked rice – that’s nearly a pound – yielding up to eight servings. Once again, Thermomix does the job for small or large numbers!
Thermomix Rice
from Fast and Easy Cooking, the 300-recipe cookbook included with every Thermomix TM31 purchased from UK Thermomix.
Ingredients
| White, Thai Jasmine or Basmati Rice | Brown Rice | Wild Rice |
| up to 400 g rice | up to 400 g rice | up to 350 g rice |
| 1 tsp salt | 1 tsp salt | 1 tsp salt |
| 1 litre/1000 g water (use only 800 g if cooking 150 g rice or less) | 1.25 litre/1250 g water | 1.25 litre/1250 g water |
| Cooking time: 20 minutes | Cooking time: 35 to 40 minutes | Cooking time: 40 to 45 minutes |
Weigh in rice and add salt, then wash and wet rice 5 seconds/Speed 5
Method
- Weigh or add water to Thermomix bowl. Insert internal steamer basket and weigh in rice. Top with salt. Wash and wet rice 5 seconds/Speed 5. This is a very important step without which you’ll end up with a brick of hard, uncooked rice
- Steam your white rice 20 minutes/Varoma setting/Speed 2 ½ (or for other types of rice use the above timings), making sure your Measuring Cup sits on the TM lid with open end up. As explained in one of my Thermomix Tips and Tricks, turn the speed UP to Speed 4 if your liquid bubbles onto the lid.
- Use the handy hook on your Thermomix spatula to carefully remove the internal steamer basket and enjoy perfectly steamed rice.
Bon appétit !
Steam white rice for 20 minutes/Varoma setting/Speed 2 1/2, Measuring Cup open end UP
Counter-intuitively, turn speed UP to stop liquids boiling over
Et voila ! Perfectly steamed rice
Now use the handy hook on your Thermomix spatula to remove the internal steamer basket without burning yourself
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Thanks for that very informative post Madame Thermomix! It’s true that there are a few things to observe when cooking rice with Thermomix in order to have fluffy rice every time. I love making rice while I cook something in the Varoma to use all 4 layers. I’ve actually just made some fish with courgettes and rice all cooking together, then made a citrus sauce in the bowl. So quick and delicious!
Thanks for reminding us, Nora, that Thermomix is perfect for multi-level cooking. When you also use the internal steamer basket, you can in effect be cooking a soup or sauce in the bowl, steaming potatoes or rice in the internal basket, and steaming two layers of food (fish, poultry, grains or meat plus vegetables) in the Varoma. Such a brilliant way to cut down on energy use and on washing up! In addition, the cook can be doing something totally different while Thermomix actually does the cooking.
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s my post on multi-level cooking and steaming: http://www.whyisthereair.com/2012/02/18/steamy-dinners/
I’d love a link to one of your blog posts where you do the same!