Pandora's Feast - Veggie Rice Cooker Dish

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 cup brown rice
• 2 cups water
• 1 cup black beans or 1 cup other beans
• thai sweet black rice
• 1 cup potato, cubed
• 1 cup sweet potato, cubed
• 1 cup squash, cubed
• 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 1 cup beet, cubed
• 1 cup kale, chopped
• olive oil (optional) or other nutritious oil (optional)
• nutritional yeast (optional)
• soy sauce (optional)
• black sesame seed (optional)

Recipe

• 1 add the brown rice and water to the rice cooker. if you have "thai sweet black rice" or "chinese forbidden black rice", replace about 10% of your brown rice with this and your finished product will be a lovely purple and will have a different taste.
• 2 the beans should either be pre-soaked (preferred) or from a can. drain, rinse, and add these to the rice cooker. if you're presoaking, the beans need about 8 hours to soak.
• 3 if using, add the garlic the cooker.
• 4 if using, add the sweet potato, squash, beet or potato, chop into cubes 1cm x 1cm for optimal cooking.
• 5 on a fuzzy logic cooker, set the cooker to the brown rice setting and turn it on. for an on/off cooker, turn it on.
• 6 if using, chop the kale.
• 7 in about 20–40 minutes, your cooker will complete cooking the rice. when the cooker is finished, open the lid, add the kale, and wait about another minute or two.
• 8 open and serve. top with oil, yeast, soy sauce and/or sesame seeds, to taste.