I go one pot: 1 cup pasta, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup tomato sauce, and some chopped up sausage all cooked at once. For chicken and white sauce pasta I use one cup pasta, 3/4 cup water, 1/4 cup milk, a can of chunk chicken rinsed and some cream cheese at the end. Also done chicken pasta with frozen vegetables, curry powder or tandoori spice, and a dollop of yogurt at the end.

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

In this mini rice cooker?

@watchthis610

2 жыл бұрын

@@CounterCooking Yep! The instruction booklet I have for it has a recipe for pasta and broccoli with cheese sauce that I use with a small pasta like elbow or rotini. But I can do a serving with sausage and tomato sauce instead. My main thing though is rice cooked with broth, meat, frozen vegetables and spices. Usually a fresh cocktail tomato and sometimes curry powder and an ice cube of coconut milk.

@SuzanneU

7 ай бұрын

What great ideas! I love one-pot recipes!

I am now obsessed with the mini appliance. I love your videos and you show case that these cook so many things. You are giving single people the ability to cook amazing dishes without leftovers. 😋

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

I'm binge-watching your channel.

I love your idea about dividing your meat in 4 oz. portions!

I love the lil colander. It’s so cute! I just saw one at Walmart and thought how it would be almost useless until I saw you use it. Perfect for the minis…newbie to the mini world. Thanks for all the videos. They are great and very helpful.

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I love it every time you post a new video. What a great way to eat healthier and cheaper when going out for the day.

I'm looking for ways to use the dash mini griddle and rice cooker while camping in my car. The dishes you are making are amazing! Thank you for cooking so many different things! Love your videos!!

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@rustykatt3870

Жыл бұрын

Hi Deb, how did this go for you? Have a great day 😊.

@DebZaragoza

Жыл бұрын

@@rustykatt3870 The rice cooker works great using my solar generator! I bought a stainless steel pot that she recommended that fits into the rice cooker, and I've used it to make homemade soup, chili, noodles, rice, etc. I use the griddle mostly for chaffles, which are easy to make. These work well for one person. Cheers to you! 😃

I have 2 of these. I love the way my lentils and rice come out. I didn’t even think too cook pasta in it. Thank you for this video.

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Made it but used Italian sausage instead, turned out great, thanks

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

👍

I made this a while ago and it is very tasty. Whenever i am thinking of using my rice cooker I go to your channel for ideas. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the video (and the others as well). I have a couple of Mini counter cooking items and they will be for my van. Perfect size and also portion control! Bless and enjoy life!

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are a great size for vans, RVs, etc. 😁

Thanks for sharing all you don. I live all your ideas you come up with !! That looked delicious!!

I love watching your cooking videos! They're so relaxing and I'm buying that exact rice cooker too so I'm really exited to try it out! :D

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Hope you like it!

Using the mini rice cooker for various innovative ideas, the low wattage allows us to cook most recipes on a 500 watt solar generator which is excellent.

Just excellent, thank you. Appreciated the tip about the frozen Swiss chard, too.

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Such a smart idea!

I'm really enjoying your mini cooker ideas!!!

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

When you make pasta in your rice cooker you use the cup and measure 1 to one one cup water 1 cup pasta put both in at the same time, no draining required I even put my pasta sauce in at the same time, comes out perfect

Love this. Thank You.

I got a 1.8L hot pot earlier this week that I'm using for pasta which works quite well. Was thinking of getting a rice cooker but not sure if I'd need one now. I can definitely say slow cookers turn pasta to mush because the timing is just too difficult to pin down.

Gurrl… this was awesome!!!!

Dang it! Now I need a mini strainer LMAO

I just got a mini rice cooker at a HomeGoods store an hour away from me because my HomeGoods store probably didn’t have it. Was actually there trying to find the mini grill but they didn’t have that they had the mini griddle in the mini waffle maker and I already have the mini waffle maker.

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I've noticed that the local HomeGoods recently got a bunch of Dash Mini items in. Kohl's also has a bunch.

@Voltomess

2 жыл бұрын

My daughter bought me this cooker for christmas and I'm looking for recipes for how to cook in that.

Love it Ty.🎉

Great recipe, thank you.

Could you add a link to the seasoning?

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looks good

I wonder if this would be good for making taco meat in there. I am a sight challenged woman who lives in a studio apartment, and I looooooooooooooooooooooooooove to make my own tacos! Unfortunately I can't use the stove without sighted help, so I wonder if this would be a great alternative. I even make my own taco seasoning from scratch!

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

yes, you should be able to brown ground meat in the rice cooker.

@MsAussie83

Жыл бұрын

@@CounterCooking I also wonder if cooking Malt-O-Meal would work in this machine. It's basically a hot cereal that's similar in texture and grind to Cream Of Wheat. I usually cook it in the microwave with 4 cups of boiled water (I boil the water in an electric kettle) to ⅔ cup of Malt-O-Meal. I hope it will work this way, since it seems that cooking it in the microwave makes a lot of steam in the interior, which eventually pools up on the bottom of the microwave, and I worry that it might short something out that's important in the machine.

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

@@MsAussie83 I would think it would work in the rice cooker. I've never heard of Malt-O-Meal before. One of the reasons I use these little appliances is because I hate using a microwave and avoid it whenever possible.

@MsAussie83

Жыл бұрын

@@CounterCooking If ya don't mind me askin', what's your Email address? If you like, you can send me an email, and I'll send you a reply with the link to Malt-O-Meal. How's that sound to you?

@MsAussie83

Жыл бұрын

@@CounterCooking What would the ratio of meat be? Usually my American mom helps me cook the meet in a cast iron pan, but if I was to do it myself, I would like to try the Dash Mini Rice Cooker. Usually when my American mom helps me make taco meat, she'll let the meat brown, then she adds warm water to the pan to make the meat moist. This way the home style taco seasoning that I make will have something to hold on to. If you know what I mean. How would I do this in the Dash Mini Rice Cooker? I usually make a pound of taco meat. Or maybe it's two pounds, I'm not exactly sure.

Romano cheese would be perfect!! I love Romano! Anyway, I just ordered a mini rice cooker. Are you still using yours??

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I use it often

I noticed after watching several rice cooker recipe videos, a lot of people have the same kind of rice cooker, different brands of course. The glass lid you take off as opposed to the hinged lid and the only button is " cook" and " warm" so I don't think you can steam or even cook brown rice . I have an Aroma brand rice cooker and I got the one with "White Rice "Brown Rice" a feature I never use cause I hate brown rice "Steam " "Keep Warm" If anyone has a rice cooker, is yours simple like in the video, do you have one like mine or did you splurge and get one with all the bells and whistles?

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

This cooks brown rice. It cooks pasta, oatmeal, hard boiled eggs, all sorts of things

I love the mini colander. Where did you find it?

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

I got it in a set of children’s pots and pans at IKEA

Where did you get that colander

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

I got it at IKEA as part of a child's play set. Here's the link - www.ikea.com/us/en/p/duktig-5-piece-toy-cookware-set-stainless-steel-color-00130167/

@femaleKCRoyalsFan

2 жыл бұрын

@@CounterCooking cute. too bad all my nieces are past that age for the play set

Have u ever tried making 8 oz of meat in there

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

no i haven’t

I just tried my dash rice today and it smells so bad like a burning plastic!!! I thought my house is on fire, I throw away all that rice.....

@CounterCooking

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, with any of the Dash appliances, you have to heat them up for awhile to burn off any chemical residue from the non-stick coatings before using them for the first time.

This seems like so much extra time spent cooking. Doesn't really seem worth it if you did this every day IMO. Just cook one big batch and you're set for days.

@CounterCooking

Жыл бұрын

You’ve missed the entire point of this video! You can’t cook one big batch of pasta if all you have is a Dash mini rice cooker. If someone is traveling and they have no place to store leftovers there’s no reason to cook one big batch.

@yungebola5524

Жыл бұрын

@Counter Cooking fair point.