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Cooking rice: how to make it crumbly? Video
Rice is the third most common cereal plant on earth after wheat and barley. Various dishes are prepared from it – it is boiled, fried, baked. But in order for the rice to turn out delicious, it is necessary to follow a few simple rules when cooking it.
There are many people in Russia who prefer to eat rice dishes. It is especially popular in the countries of Southeast Asia, where almost all parts of the plant are used. The grains are used for food, mats, hats, sandals and bags are weaved from rice straw, husks are fed to cattle, and fertilizer is obtained from the ashes of burnt roots. It is mainly eaten boiled.
The key to success is the right amount of water
How can you cook rice deliciously? First of all, it is best to use long grain varieties of rice for cooking. For example, such varieties include “Basmati”. It costs more than round grain rice, but tastes better and almost never sticks together.
Rinse the rice thoroughly in cold running water before cooking. To do this, pour it into a large deep bowl, cover with cool water, stir and carefully drain the water along with the resulting turbidity, holding the grains of rice. Repeat this procedure several times until the water becomes clear.
If you are using parboiled rice for cooking, this procedure can be omitted.
Then place the washed rice in a saucepan or pot, cover with cold water, add salt to taste. Oriental chefs, when telling how you can cook delicious rice, advise you to adhere to the so-called “rule of the thumb”. That is, pour enough water so that it covers the rice with a layer about the thickness of an adult man’s thumb (about 1 inch, that is, about 2,5 centimeters).
In European cookbooks, the following advice is often found: the volume of water should be twice the volume of rice. That is, if you want to boil one glass of rice with a capacity of 250 milliliters, take exactly half a liter of water.
How to cook rice properly?
Observe the correct thermal conditions. To do this, starting to cook the rice, first bring the water to a boil over high heat. Then reduce heat to low. While stirring occasionally, wait until all the water is absorbed. This usually happens after 15–20 minutes. After that, reduce the heat again (so that it just does not go out), cover the container with the rice with a lid and wait about 15-20 minutes more.
At this stage, you cannot remove the lid, otherwise the steam on which the rice is cooked will immediately evaporate and the rice will turn out to be not so tasty and crumbly
If you add a little apple cider vinegar or lemon juice to the water at the very beginning of cooking, the finished rice will be dazzling white.