The recipe for Venus rice cooked in the microwave is a great convenience. Excellent for our summer rice salads, perhaps paired with shrimp cooked in the microwave or with zucchini, or to be enjoyed as a main dish. Whether it’s summer or winter, cooking Venus rice in the microwave will make our lives easier. Recently, I purchased a microwave rice cooker (you can find the link in the tool list), where, besides rice, I will also test other low glycemic index grains and pasta. Very soon, on my blog, you will find many recipes for cooking grains in the microwave, so I can enrich my collection of microwave recipes. If you find it useful, let me know on my social channels; you can find me on Facebook and Instagram.
Now, let’s see how to make Venus rice cooked in the microwave.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 5 Minutes
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 3
- Cooking methods: Microwave
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All Seasons
- Energy 244.22 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 50.29 (g) of which sugars 0.62 (g)
- Proteins 4.95 (g)
- Fat 2.00 (g) of which saturated 0.00 (g)of which unsaturated 0.00 (g)
- Fibers 2.61 (g)
- Sodium 132.47 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 190 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
- 1 cup Venus rice
- 1 3/4 cups water
- 1 pinch salt
Tools
- 1 Microwave oven
- 1 Rice Cooker for microwave
- 1 Food scale
Procedure
Measure the rice by weighing it on the scale inside the empty rice cooker. Rinse the rice and drain it. Put the rice cooker back on the scale and add the water and salt. Stir and close the container, leaving the valve open.
Place the rice cooker in the microwave and cook for 18 minutes at about 700 watts. At the end of cooking, close the valve and let it rest in the turned-off microwave for 5 minutes.
Now, your Venus rice cooked in the microwave is ready to be enjoyed hot or at room temperature.
Dal tegame al vasetto’s Tips
To cook rice in the microwave, you need double its weight in water. The cooking time is the same as the cooking time indicated on the package, so if you use rice with a shorter cooking time, you will need to reduce the cooking duration.
The advantage of cooking grains in the microwave with the rice cooker is that you don’t have to monitor the cooking and don’t dirty anything except the container used.
Venus Rice with Vegetables in the Microwave
You can add 100 g of frozen peas or asparagus to the rice, mix everything, and at the end of cooking, season with a yogurt sauce or a drizzle of oil and grated Grana Padano.
Brown Rice Cooked in the Microwave
With the same steps, you can also cook black rice and brown rice, respecting the same proportions of water and grain but adapting to the cooking times indicated on the package. Depending on the container’s capacity, you can double the ingredient amounts.
Learn more about the author
Rosella Errante, a food blogger on the Giallo Zafferano platform, passionate about food, has decided to speed up traditional dishes. She specialized in microwave jar cooking and healthy eating using the latest generation appliances. Hence the name of her blog, Dal tegame al vasetto.
After making the technique of jar cooking accessible to everyone, she opened a support group on Facebook, Easy Jar Cooking, following each member of her community and introducing them to this extraordinary cooking technique.
Author of 3 books: 2 on jar cooking, Easy Jar Cooking and Light Jar Cooking, and a book Air Fryer. All Gribaudo editore.
She holds courses throughout Italy, both on microwave jar cooking and the air fryer.
You can find Rosella Errante on all social channels: Facebook page and profile – Instagram – Tik Tok – Pinterest – You Tube – Telegram Channel –
