Most People Waste Their Rice Cooker! Try These Chinese One-Pot Dinners

You have a rice cooker on your counter, but every night you still stand at the stove with three pans, then stand at the sink washing all of them. Your rice cooker can cook the whole dinner at the same time as the rice, with one button and almost no washing up. My name is Mei Lin. I grew up in Guangzhou in the south of China, where my mother cooked dinner for eight people with one pot and one fire, setting the meat right on top of the rice as it cooked. In this video I share twelve Chinese one-pot dinners you can make in any rice cooker, using the same button you already press every day. In this video: The four rules that make any rice cooker dinner work, and the one mistake that scratches your rice cooker pot My everyday sauce that turns plain rice into dinner Whole tomato rice, the easiest dinner you will ever make Silky chicken and shiitake mushroom rice, plus the trick for steaming your vegetables at the same time Ginger and green onion fish, steamed right on top of the rice Shanghai vegetable rice with bacon, and beef and egg rice from the Hong Kong cafes Sticky soy sauce chicken wings and potatoes for tired nights Pumpkin and pork rice for autumn Chicken and ginger rice porridge, made without standing at the stove Cantonese taro rice and dim sum black bean spare ribs Sticky rice with chicken and Chinese sausage, without wrapping a single leaf Cantonese chicken and rice with ginger and green onion sauce No fancy rice cooker, no special settings and no gadgets. Just one pot, one button and the way Chinese families have put dinner on top of the rice for generations. Always check your meat: chicken is ready at 165°F, and pork and fish at 145°F. What dinner would you most like to cook in your rice cooker? And if your mother or grandmother had a one-pot dinner she made when there was no time and no money, what was it? Tell me in the comments. I want to hear it before it is gone.