On Aug 15, 11:51*am, "cshenk" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
> > Has anyone tried cooking lentils and rice together ?
> > In a rice cooker ? *On the stove ?
> > Timing ? *Proportions of liquid to solids ?
>
> > Thanks for your help with this.
>
> Hi John! *I see others showed you how to make it on the stove. *If you plan
> to do it completely in a rice cooker though, you'd need to precook the
> lentils. *Yes, it can be done but you'd work it in 2 series.
>
> First run is just the lentils and water. *I dont make lentils often except
> as a component in a variety crockpot soup/stew so dont know offhand the
> actual water percent but I bet the bag lists it.
>
> --trotting to the kitchen to check that--
>
> I just checked mine and looks like 3-4 cups water to a cup of lentils. *Make
> it that way, then remove lentils from pot and stow away the rest in the
> fridge.
>
> Add back the amount of cooked lentils you wanted, then add dry rice and
> water (1 cup rice, 2 scant cups water).
>
> Set it off again and you have a very basic rice/lentil dish. *You can add
> the spices at the same time as the rice if you like and you may want to use
> broth vice water for the rice run.

You know, this post reminds me that my instructions for cooking
lentils and rice in a rice cooker together assume BROWN rice. My
instructions would not work right for white rice, which is why the
above poster suggests doing two rounds in the cooker. For me that's
too much work. So whenever I do a pilaf in the cooker I choose a
smaller lentil, like those French puys, (the little black ones) and
only use brown rice. I don't like crunchy beans or crunchy rice.

Thanks for this technique above. It looks fine, I just don't have the
concentration to deal with two passes on the cooker.

Leila