Your rice cooker can do more than just cook rice, it can even steam your veggies. Here's what you need to make perfectly ...

Stop buying frozen, steam-in-bag vegetables from the grocery store. Save money and time by buying fresh vegetables and steaming them with a microwave and a little cling wrap.

In fact, says Hertzler, steaming is so easy that it is a good first lesson in cooking for children. Preschoolers can help by washing or scrubbing vegetables and by setting the time for the steamer ...

I love eating this as a 100% vegetable meal; however, for something more substantial, you can add a scoop of rice, a poached egg, dollop of hummus, sliced avocado, or all of the above.

Steaming vegetables is healthful, but not very flavorful. The other drawback to steaming is quantity-unless you have a wide-diameter steamer, large quantities of vegetables are hard to steam.

Steaming can preserve up to 91.4 percent of vitamin C in vegetables, while boiling can lead to losses of up to 54.6 percent. Antioxidant levels are better maintained through steaming compared to ...

Clearly, steamed vegetables don't deserve their bad reputation. One thing with boiling your vegetables is that you can add salt to the water, which then infuses into the veggies to give them more ...

“Some vegetables really are suited for steaming. Broccoli, green beans, carrots, cabbage, and some of the others are especially tasty cooked this way,” says Ann Hertzler, Virginia Cooperative ...