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Making Pasta in a Rice Cooker
July 15, 2013 by Judith Hanneman
Cook Pasta With A Rice Cooker
Cooking pasta in a rice cooker is easy. No draining required.
First make sure your rice cooker can handle the amount of COOKED pasta–remembering that it doubles in volume when cooked. Mostly I make about 1 cup dry, 2 cups cooked in my rice cooker.
For “shaped” pasta like elbows, bow ties, penne, etc. put the amount dry i.e. 1 cup in the cooker. Add water to cover plus maybe 1/8-1/4-inch above the pasta (depending on how soft you like it) If you like it REALLY al dente, then just cover with water.
Add some salt to the water (you can leave that out if you’re watching your salt) but go easy because remember a…
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