Easy Caramelized Onion Rice in a Rice Cooker

Note: I use brown rice almost all the time when I make rice. I also use a rice cooker- $20 or so at Target.

1-2 onions (around 1 - 1.5 cups, chopped)
1 tablespoon butter
salt
1 cup brown rice
2.5 cups water

Chop your onion(s) medium to small. Saute them in butter, with a dash of salt, until they are caramelized; this will probably take at least 30-40 min. Stir occasionally (like, every 10 min or so). Using really low heat with a lid on the pan helps, as does the dash of salt.

Put a cup of brown rice into your rice cooker. Add the onion mixture. Add 2.5 cups of water.

Set the cooker to "cook" until the rice is done. This will probably take 45 min- 1 hour. I recommend putting a kitchen towel around the lid of the cooker, because brown rice tends to boil over and that will prevent it from making a mess of your countertop.

When the rice is done, stir well to mix in the onions.

This works well with various types of brown rice- I usually use long-grain, but today did it with short grain and it was yummy.