Hearty Sous Vide Rice Bowl for All Hungry People

Name: Sous Vide Rice Bowl | Epicurious
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 1/3 cup Uncle Ben’s Rice, Original or Whole Grain; 2 tsp. unsalted butter, divided; 3/4 tsp. kosher salt, divided, plus more; 1 large carrot, peeled, cut into 1/2" pieces; 1 tsp. fresh lime juice; 1 tsp. pure maple syrup; 1/2 tsp. cumin seeds; 1 1/4 tsp. toasted sesame oil, divided; 4 oz. shiitake mushrooms, sliced (about 2 cups); 1/4 tsp. cornstarch; 1 tsp. tamari or soy sauce; Fearless Sous Vide Poached Egg, sliced scallions, fried shallots, crushed peanuts, and hot sauce (for serving; optional); A sous vide machine; three 1-qt-size vacuum-sealable or resealable plastic freezer bags

By Tyler Kord

October 16, 2019

Photo of a sous vide prepared dinner of shiitake mushrooms carrots and rice.

Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell

We did it! We wanted to make dinner for one where the cleanup is just washing out a few bags and that’s it. And we were determined to make rice a part of that...but rice was determined to not be a part of it. We cooked so many tiny bags of rice trying to make this work, but the par-boiled nature of Uncle Ben’s, which allows it to cook faster in a sealed environment without getting starchy or gummy, made it the clear winner.

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