Cook the indica rice from the moment the water starts heating for 30 minutes.
How to cook indica rice
Products
Indica brown rice (long grain) – 180 grams
Water – 2 glasses
Olive oil – 1 teaspoon and 0,5 teaspoon
Salt – half a teaspoon
How to cook indica rice at home
1. Thoroughly sort out the rice, rinsing it with running water, placing it in a sieve with frequent holes. It is necessary to rinse the rice until the water is completely transparent – and this is a guarantee of the friability of the cooked rice.
2. Pour the prepared cold water into a saucepan, pour in the prepared rice and season with salt (half a teaspoon).
3. Constantly stirring, wait for the mixture to boil.
4. For 4 minutes on maximum heat, cook the rice in a saucepan, tightly covering it with a lid.
5. Stir the rice grits, leave on low heat for another 2,5 minutes.
6. Stir the rice again, reduce heat to the lowest setting and cook for 11,5 minutes, not forgetting to stir constantly.
7. Add olive oil (half a teaspoon): it will give the rice a golden color and additional crumbling.
8. While stirring the rice, wait for the water to boil, but do not let the rice burn.
9. You can rinse with lukewarm water, season with olive oil (1 teaspoon), stir a little and leave to simmer under the lid for 7 minutes.
Delicious facts
– The calorie content of cooked indica rice is 98 kcal / 100 grams.
– The price of brown long-grain indica rice in Moscow is from 141 rubles per kilogram (as of June 2017).
– “Indica”, in contrast to most varieties of rice, is not subjected to careful mechanical processing. Minimal processing allows you to preserve the maximum of nutrients in rice, and the characteristic color of the grains is given by their shell. Indica rice is famous for the fact that, thanks to the careful processing of its grains, they retain the most useful – the germs. It is not difficult to check the quality of such rice: if you try to sprout rice grains on your own, you can find out how high-quality product you have come across – good grains will certainly sprout.