Perfect Rice Cooker Rice & Beans

Rice and Beans is the number 1 native dish of Belize, but a lot of people have trouble cooking it. I've consistently tried to find ways to make preparing this meal easier and more simple. When using a simple rice cooker, preparing this meal is simple as 1, 2 3 .

[@bifflawson3430]

I am from Belize and I searched rice and beans in rice cooker and I am very happy to have found you! Thanks 🙏🏾

[@suleigh4115]

You are the first person to explain the finger measure method in a way that I understood! Thanks!

[@TheeRoyalAfro]

Thank you so very much for making this!!! My husband is Belizean and I love the crockpot and rice cooker. Thank you so much for doing this. You are the best.

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Hi TheeRoyalAfro, this was really nice to read at the end of a long sucky day. Thanks so much.

[@christinabrown2987]

What are ways to meet Belizean people? or any other Central American or South American people? Especially the Afros ones. Thanks.

[@heel4reel387]

i have same rice cooker and i wanted beans/rice with some chicken quesadillas so i measured my rice like normal added water...then half can of black beans. threw some onions/garlic/salt/pepper for seasonings...cooked it in 20 mins. turned out good...i think im gonna use beef broth and more seasonings next time. good video!

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[@Kimmieluvskandy]

I was born in Belize and I love this recipe. I had rice and beans for lunch today!

[@edwardlouisbernays2469]

I bought a Pressure Cooker about a year ago, but it fell down and broke the Handle. I then got 2 Free Rice Cookers, a Aroma 10 Cup stainless Steal, and a Z0 Jirusai 10 Cup , and I learned to cook "Beans & Rice" from a Friend from Belieze in 1977, we worked (for free) at a Homeless Shelter in Oklahoma City, "The Jesus House" and Everybody Loved "Rice & Beans" we cooked it in a Huge Cooker (Had to cook for 50 Hungry Winos! ) I am 67 Years old and Love Brown Beans (pinto Beans) and 'Sweet Corn Bread" which my Grandmother called 'Mexican Corn Bread" she used 'Cream Corn" in the Corn Bread , and Jalepieno peppers, The Corn Bread was 'Moist and Juicy" inside, very 'Mouth Warming." Here in San Francisco ALL KINDS of Del Sur Americano Foods are available, Guatemalia, Mexico, Central America, South America, all is Here. Being Senior I get 'Meals on Wheels," but I Cannot Afford to eat on Cafes, you can not get a Meal less than 15 DllsUS. Even a Burrito is $9.00 but I have Stove and Convection Oven.....& pots and Pans. BTW I lived in Colonia Aleman, Tinuana, MX for a couple years and Get Too Fat.....food was Affordable at Restrants in TJ. There was a Chinese Place 2 Blocks away, for 35 Pesos a Chinese Take out ($4.00 DllsUS) I could eat for Supper and Breakfast next day. I always cooked Pinto Beans and Threw in Rice and Diced Potatoes after soaking overnight. Lots of Gringoes don't not Know to Soak the Beans.....Oy Vey! But with a Pressure Cooker one need not Soak. And all beans and Rice MUST BE "PICKED THROUGH" for Stones and Husks....I clean the Husks while Soaking they Rise to Top, but the Stones gotta be Eyeball & Fingers. If you ever Break a Teeth eating Sweet Yummy Brown Beans you learn to Enjoy Using the Finger and Eyeball to remove stones. LOL. Love your channel...a OLD MAN.

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[@koolohinde]

Rice and beans,we love it here in Brazil.

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[@mylifeonthehill]

Can't wait to try this

[@irs902]

THANK YOU! This the one dish I have tried to master.

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[@trent00712]

Great job on the presentation Barb, so true the amount of water is the key to getting soft fluffy rice n beans. I love my herbs, so I also add oregano, thyme, onion, bellpepper and rosemary to the mix. Coconut milk of course gives it the kick, but at time I substitute it for coconut oil ... and boy it's just as good.

[@VictorBravocarsales]

You are awesome! Thanks for sharing your skills and keep up the good work.

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[@edwinkirkland8856]

Thank you soooooo much God bless

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Hi Andrew, The brand is Aroma. I really love it. You can open beans from the can add rice and do exactly what I did and you will have perfect rice and beans.

[@jessil3195]

Hi there. For d powder coco milk how much of it of a pack would u use for 2 cups or rice?? D whole pack. Half. 3/4?

[@clonemagicfilms]

at 6:04 you said, "the pot knows some way some how there is no water". Please allow me to explain. The pot has a thermostat, when ever it gets hotter than 212 degrees it will turn to warm mode. Water boils at 212 degrees, and when all water evaporates everything left in the pot, will start to get hotter, and then the thermostat in your pot will switch to warm.

[@itssewxtra1713]

+clonemagicfilms Actually the rice cooker is shut off by the weight of the food inside the cooker. That is the spring loaded button on the bottom. Even though the rice or in this case rice and beans absorb the water, it becomes less dense from the letting out of steam. When that cooking bowl lifts up the cooker turns off. That is why if you add more water the bowl becomes heavier again and will run on cook instead of warm. That may help you in the future as to how the machine works.

[@kennethflorek8532]

m. s. mary But you can put different amounts in the pot to start with and they will be a different weight, and a combination of different things (like not all rice, but some veggies) will be a different weight. Then if you put in too much weight, the heat will never turn down to warm, and if you put in too little weight the heat will never turn up to cook. Besides that, the pot would have to move up and down, and in my cooker it is already all the way down with nothing in the pot, and it sure is once the cover is clamped down. Spring-loading just gives the heating element a positive contact, I think.

[@kennethflorek8532]

twiggy 2142 Since, as I already mentioned, different amounts of food and water will weigh different amounts at the start, which makes switching down using the exact weight impossible, because the required finish weight is unknown; whatever the reason may be that your rice cooker switches into warm under the circumstances you mention, it doesn't make working by weight seem any less impossible. I can think up reasons why your rice cooker might do what it does, having nothing to do with weight, but I don't know for a fact they are the real reason. The pot in my rice cooker starts bottomed out, and it is still bottomed out when I open it at the finish. So how does the cooker detect the weight? The lid of my rice cooker also camps all the way down on the pot when it is closed, so there is no way the spring on the bottom can move the pot up or down. So how does the cooker detect the weight? But there is one more important thing. If you put in the appropriate proportions of water and rice, the water will all be absorbed by the rice at the finish, and the weight will be just about the same as it was at the start, minus some steam leakage, making it just about impossible to detect when it is done by using weight.

[@keshawearing7326]

It's determined by the weight.

[@TheDennisgrass]

@@keshawearing7326 Maybe cheap-o Chinese made rice cookers work on the weight principal. HOWEVER, Japanese quality rice cookers use temperature based science..... which ensures that all of the water has been utilized in the cooking process, without scorcing! According to the Toshiba inventor of modern rice cookers (1955): "...., it is an application of water evaporation instead of a timer, which is a simple and rational idea that is typical of Japanese people. "

[@dreamwoodsbutterfly]

I truly enjoyed your recipe and presentation!!

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[@antonioadames3419]

i need this in my life

[@brilliantTW1]

Excellent recipe and technique !

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[@laurenlind5792]

I tried it and it came out really good! I did it with black beans. Thanks!

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[@JambaJoy]

I really like the coconut idea. Going to try it.

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[@briansivley2001]

I earlier this month got the exact same rice cooker and I'm going to be using it for the first time tonight to cook my rice and beans.

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[@pascaledevalet]

Cannot wait to try this.

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[@CocoWatson]

Wow, your daughter's bowl and lid are amazing for a seven-year old! Great video, thanks for teaching.

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[@wilfredbarnes1986]

This is good. I did not know that Belizeans do rice and peas like Jamaicans. That was nice I would love to taste it.

[@jman4668]

Rice goes in the peas not the other way around

[@AussieAngeS]

Yum that looks deeelish!

[@statik00]

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[@TheBarePantryShow]

Yes I do.. its called Rice and Beans with Brown Rice.

[@kerrychristy2336]

Great video, you explained it so well and can't wait to try with my new rice cooker :))) thanks

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[@suburbanryder]

I really enjoy the cooking but most of all the interaction you have with your viewers. It makes you videos so interesting to watch Barbara.

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[@17025601]

Could put some oil or coconut oil in bottom first to keep from burning bottom. Love your channel and recipes!

[@TheDennisgrass]

If the bottom of your rice cooker burns, you need to change to a Japanese made rice cooker. They use technology which shuts the cooking off when the temperature goes over 100C.

[@carlosmorgan8123]

Thanks I love you Voice iam from Panama love that a lot. Thanks make in that pot

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[@valeriebolton9975]

Can I do the same thing in the aroma rice and grain cooker?

[@alvin1364able]

Many thanks.

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[@Mandinko23]

THank you so much for this easy recipe i live alone and i sometimes have no clue as to what to cook. i am not from a country that cook rice and beans like south american countries so this tasty dish in a rice cooker is a winner for me, i am going to try it out tomorrow with coconut milk and see how it comes out. wish me luck

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[@GeorgeWitham-qb6ye]

Works great if you pay attention to instructions. kzbin.infoUgkxviiltW7NlHbp_VL_bLbIkbLAvILVhnia For those that complain about "mushy" or "wet" rice I suspect they are using the included cup to measure rice (which is really only 3/4 cup) and then putting in water using a separate measuring cup that is a full cup. This results in too much water and you will get mushy or wet rice and think it is not done. Just use the included cup for both rice and water, or your own measuring cup for rice and water according to your package directions. It will come out fine. I've used mine for years for brown and white rice. If your machine is bubbling white froth out of the steam vent then it means you should have rinsed your brand of rice first to remove some of the starch. Sheesh. Makes me wonder how people can cook well enough to feed themselves.

[@Conical187]

that looks good. good job woman

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[@carak8309]

Gonna look it up on my fav fav channel! Thanks

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[@roddyricher8679]

God bless everyone and their family blessings thank you beautiful

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[@drewcarr1]

I will check it out....thanks...

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[@SuperAngelles]

Thank you very much for posting this video I love mixed beans and rice and now I know I can cook this in my office for when I work in my small Aroma rice cooker. I cannot wait to try this out for myself. Looks Yummy especially when I am going to add chicken breast into the steaming tray and cook all at once. Very very good video maam.

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[@petmomful2260]

Thanks for this great video. I just got my rice cooker and I am going to try it. Looks yummy.

[@TheBarePantryShow]

You're going to love how easy it is to do Marguerite. Tell me how it comes out ok.

[@petmomful2260]

My brown rice came out perfect. Steamed some chicken breasts and brocolli. All came out very nice. My new year's resolution is to eat healthier and lose some weight. I am def. going to try rice and beans when I can get to the grocery store.

[@lianepetersoncampbell3238]

Wow, thank you...very informational and articulate :-)

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[@SeekerFitness]

so pretty..yes requires expderimenting esp types of rice....have you tried with brown rice..i can't eat white ricd anymore (diabetes)...so i would love to do it with brown rice.

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[@DullQueenMab]

This looks delicious! My mom always makes rice and beans but she never uses coconut milk, it's kinda new for me to hear that you can put coconut milk in the rice! I'll ask my mom to try doing that sometime! :D

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[@TheBarePantryShow]

Yes...I always do this to make sure I have enough liquid. Joe however, is the 'Rice and Beans whisperer so he doesn't have to do this.....lol

[@rckint]

Thank you for your video presentation on how to cook rice with beans. We cook rice with sweet potatoes in Maca-as, Catmon, Cebu, Philippines. But you have opened new ways of preparing the rice for us using the rice cooker.

[@TheBarePantryShow]

I just tried it in the electric pressure cooker and it took 40 minutes from uncooked beans to finished rice and beans. I'll have to do a video on that soon.

[@karinamendoza9834]

+The Bare Pantry Show Is the rice and beans dish from Belize or Guatemala? I'm asking because when I went to Guatemala on vacations, I was told that it was from there.

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Rice and Beans is from Belize. I know nothing about Guatemala.

[@user-wg5oz8nt9e]

ur rice bean is so delicious!

[@tmangamingx]

I have just received my Aroma today from amazon . I have only cooked two thinks rice and red potatoes. Both were real good. Its amazing to me that the closer you got to the bottom of the cooker it seemed like the contents kept growing. Like you cooked a bunch of food . I noticed that when I dipped my rice out. When will I ever reach the bottom LoL Thanks for sharing your recipe. I am gonna try this one next.

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[@Pgonzo8798]

I just found you KZbin and I am enjoying your videos. Question, what would you suggest to eat with the rice n beans (meat)? Thanks.

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[@stevefreyaw]

Good job !!!!!!!!

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[@queen2be1000]

Thank u so much

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[@robertjohnson5242]

That's wonderful movie thanks for sharing.

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[@kikko02]

with most rice cookers, when it stops you keep it on warm for 15-20 min.then you can eat

[@statik00]

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[@youeatmetube]

You sad you used to search for Stones and other things in the rice when you where a kid. Funny how I forgot about that, one of the few things I did with my grandmother. Really happy I don't have to do that anymore with every meal.

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Right? Max..It was fun to do as a kid, but can you imagine having to do that now with all we have to do in a day?

[@janeeirvin6157]

Great video.

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[@TheEyedyed]

YUMMMMMMY

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[@paolacastilloalejandro998]

Hi! your recipes are awesome, my boyfriend is Belizean and I want to learn how to cook belizean food....he doesn't like rice and beans though.....but I like it..haha

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Hi Paola, you will be great in no time at all. I make the foods really simple and fun to make.

[@paolacastilloalejandro998]

Yes, thats true, they're very easy. Thank you!!!! :)

[@TheBarePantryShow]

I'll do this dish again to upload next week, but with black beans. I'll show you then how to do cook the bean part.

[@duanerichard]

the reason you had to go to da 3 line is because the beans add about a cup. the line is just the liquid and rice only

[@lukomarseille8732]

+duanerichard , yes you have to add more water to make it cook.

[@dentalflossy2237]

when I use the rice cooker some of the rice sticks at the bottom what do I do?

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[@CaptPonyholder]

I am a college student so I don't have much room. Will a can of say Black/Kidney/White beans after washed work just as well?

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Yes absolutely..just watch the rice to bean ratio. You don't want more rice than beans. also watch the water level. Plz come back and tell me how it came out.

[@LakshanW]

Great video

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[@TheBarePantryShow]

gummy rice means too much water. When I measure, the tip of my finger touches the top of the rice and the water level should reach the first section of your finger.

[@highcarbschwabe658]

Delicious! I could eat 2-3 bowls like that for dinner. Plus one bowl of veggies, including extra garlic and a nice Habanero.

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[@amazak01]

What size rice cooker do you use?

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[@geminilove4682]

False evidence appearing real! Love it!

[@carak8309]

Do you have a recipe for Brown rice and beans?

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[@drewcarr1]

I cant cook..so maybe i will buy this rice cooker...I luvvvvv rice...

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[@MissKoranza]

Just curious.. Why always coconut milk? Ive never used it... or tasted it lol

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[@drewcarr1]

what is the name of your rice cooker

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[@guccighost1898]

What kind of rice cooker is that?

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[@Greenwickpress]

I have that same cooker, and I also found the rice needed extra water.

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[@missriina84]

My mom made pineapple rice and other types of rice ad well like - vegetables, parley, etc

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Riina W I loving trying new things like this. So maybe I'll try making the rice with other stuff.

[@missriina84]

Your recipe looks really good. I just have to get the ingredients for it.

[@jenderwear1922]

+The Bare Pantry Show My rice cooker tip is, I put 1 large cube of KNORR tomato bouillon with chicken flavor. It really adds a lot of flavor to my rice dishes. :)

[@gadgetgirl6632]

jenderwear I buy the powder version of the tomato chicken bullion and use to add flavor to both rice and pastas. Love the stuff!

[@calahgrimes]

I love it! F.E.A.R False evidence appearing real. Thank you for this video!

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[@sirCULTURE]

Needed to use more liquid from the start.

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[@Carina0145]

Can anyone help! Do I need to boil the beans overnight? Or can I just cook them for 10 mins before their cooked with rice 😆

[@Carina0145]

It's ok I just realised at the end she said she used fresh beans

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[@dentalflossy2237]

do a video on Cuban rice please :)

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[@axxis402]

I just made an observation not trying to change anything do what you do

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[@nuttybar9]

It goes on warm and won't go back on until it cools down.

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[@helenalee4267]

You need to use a Chinese measuring cup because it's smaller 😉

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[@tomwallen7271]

Ah!!! That's my rice cooker!!! :D

[@TheBarePantryShow]

+Tom Wallen Its a great little work horse for sure Tom.

[@MatthewSpencerKociol]

Hey this looks great but then you said you gotta be careful because it could burn at the bottom. Wow that's a bummer. Do rice cookers tend to burn rice? If so, what's the point, rice takes 15-20 minutes on a stove in a pan with a lid and if you cook it in a little bit of butter or oil, you'll never burn rice!

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[@shortythepresident3913]

Belizan? Woman let me tell you something - Panamanians and Belizans are really Jamaicans. Most of them came to those countries for the Panama Canal and other projects and never left. That's why you both cook like Jamaicans and have that accent similar to Jamaicans. And even the people are the same.Wonderful and loving.

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[@dianeanderson1563]

i use my microwave on 60% power so it doesn't boil over. 15 minutes...done.

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[@axxis402]

Why are you using metal forks in your rice cooker that why came with plastic spoon!!!

[@TheBarePantryShow]

+Norm A I use a serving fork to loosen the rice because as Belizeans we don't like rice grains that are clumped together. You'll never see me stirring rice with a spoon.

[@axxis402]

Yeah I just have a thing about shards of metal in my food but hey its your dish and it does look good

[@TheBarePantryShow]

+Norm A we don't scrape the bottom of the pan nor the sides with the fork. For our daily job we work with plastics and we know how bad plastic is for you so I try to use glass, rubber or metal or paper whenever I can. I don't try to get on a soap box at my cooking channel though and force my beliefs down anyone's throat. Like you said everyone will do what they do in their own kitchen. No use trying to change that.

[@axxis402]

I just made an observation not trying to change anything do what you do.

[@lorenzodagamer2485]

Your rice looks very mushy

[@jgrm4443]

Your rice is mushy. I don't like mushy rice.

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[@MohamedNazfar]

Really your recipe is so good but you are talking to much dear😂😂

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[@cindypattana6071]

Too dry.

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[@c_farther5208]

She touches everything, the pot, the food, everything she touches, others are eating. GROSS. Her rice is completely overcooked. She has no clue what she is doing.

[@namenotimportant5571]

Whatever !

[@donberry6079]

coconut milk!!!???!! Gross.

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[@jasoncardenas2613]

Stop using that fork in your cooker!

[@TheBarePantryShow]

You do you and I'll do me.

[@jasoncardenas2613]

It was a joke. Lighten up.. 👌 And go get a $0.99 wooden spoon. Blessings 😁

[@TheBarePantryShow]

Jason !!!PLEASE PRAY!!! Cardenas Jokes don’t go over well in writing. It wasn’t a joke of you still want me to get a wooden spoon.

[@jasoncardenas2613]

@@TheBarePantryShow I'm very very sorry. Have a blessed day.

[@agmefaquino3260]

Don't talk too much. Start cooking now Waiting how you cook