Have you ever missed cooking your rice?
Me too ! But now I know some tricks to cook rice .
Fortunately, there are a few tips to make sure your rice cooks successfully.
Here are five cooking methods, for an inescapable rice!
The most common cooking is to immerse the rice in a large volume of water.
You can, if desired, add the rice once the water is boiling and let it cook for 10 minutes.
Or on the contrary, cover your rice with cold water and bring to a boil.
In this case, you wait until all the water is absorbed before draining your rice.
In this type of cooking, you can rinse your rice before or after cooking.
For rice pilaf, simply brown the rice quickly in a tablespoon of butter or olive oil in a pan.
You brown it for a few minutes until it becomes transparent.
Stir well and then add 1 glass of hot water. Cook for about 15 minutes.
It is a good method to make Chinese fried rice or onion and tomato rice, vegetable rice.
The following method, widely used for Asian rice, requires pre-soaking for one hour.
To forget, therefore, if you are in a hurry! Otherwise, take advantage of the steam to cook your rice, which will take about 25 minutes to cook.
Nothing prevents you from cooking your rice in the microwave, quite the contrary! Provide as much water as rice (for example a glass of rice for a glass of water).
Rinse your rice well and put everything in a microwave-safe dish.
Set your oven to medium power, for 15 minutes.
It's a quick way to cook your rice.
Risotto is a cooking method often overlooked for lack of time. You have to stay on the side and add the cooking water gradually .
It is best to brown the rice in oil or butter first, then add the broth, ladle by ladle, waiting for the liquid to be fully absorbed between each one.
Thanks to these simple techniques, you now know how to cook rice :-)
As you can see, there are a thousand and one ways to prepare rice!
And it's not that easy to find your way around.
There are a lot of ways to prepare rice:in the Cookéo, in the pressure cooker, in the steamer, in the rice cooker, in the slow cooker...
Not to mention the different kinds of rice from Uncle Ben's unbeatable with or without a bag, through bulk, jasmine rice, basmati rice, Thai rice, fragrant rice, long grain rice, brown rice ...
Rice is thus available to infinity and so are its recipes.
Do you know stewed rice, grilled rice, Cantonese rice, fat rice, or curry or boulaye?
All these many recipes are delicious.
It's very practical to vary the pleasures while saving money.
And if you're wondering how many grams you need per person... I recommend this tip.
You will know what grammage it takes per person, how much water to make the best rice in the world!
To save energy, consider covering your water when you bring it to the boil, you will avoid unnecessary heat loss.
If your stove is electric, do not hesitate to stop your plate 4 minutes before the end of cooking.
The electric plates continue to heat up even after they have been switched off.
Forget the stock cubes, which quickly become expensive. Add a drizzle of olive oil to your cooking water and garnish it with various herbs.
The result will be as economical as it is delicious!
And be smart:make a lot of it.
Remember to add a few handfuls of rice.
And save a portion to prepare a delicious salad to take to the office the next day!
You will save the price of a midday meal at the restaurant!
