How to cook wild rice? Video
Few people know that wild rice is not real rice. These are the seeds of a herb growing in North America that served as food for the Indians. Not everyone can make wild rice tasty, as there are some nuances that make it different from ordinary rice.
To make wild rice soft and crumbly, soak it before cooking. The seeds flooded with water are left overnight.
Soaked wild rice should be rinsed before cooking and put in boiling salted water at the rate of one glass of rice to three glasses of water. You need to cook the grains under a closed lid over medium heat for about 40 minutes. The cooked wild rice should increase in size.
If you need to cook a dish quickly and there is no way to soak rice for a long time, then you can pour boiling water over it for an hour. Further cooking follows the same recipe.
It is advisable to hold the boiled rice under the lid for about an hour so that the grains fully open, then you can add butter or vegetable oil to it to taste and mix with a fork.
How to cook chicken wild rice
For cooking you will need: – 1 glass of wild rice; – 1 kg of peeled chicken breasts; – 1 tbsp. flour; – 1 tbsp. lemon juice; – 2-3 cloves of garlic; – 2 tbsp. olive or sunflower oil; – 3 tbsp. soy sauce; – spices to taste.
Wild rice soaked for 12 hours should be poured into a baking sheet and covered with three glasses of water. In an oven preheated to 180 ° C, rice should be kept for about an hour.
When it becomes softer, and most of the liquid has evaporated, you need to add a glass of chicken broth to it.
To obtain chicken broth, boil the breasts until half cooked, remove them, strain the remaining water
Boiled chicken breasts should be fried over medium heat in a small amount of vegetable oil, add grated garlic, spices, and salt to them to taste. Next, they need to be poured with the remaining broth, add half a glass of water and simmer under a closed lid.
Add flour, lemon juice and soy sauce to the gravy. The resulting mass should be mixed until smooth and brought to a boil. When the gravy begins to thicken, you can finish cooking. Wild rice is served with chicken breasts and gravy, fresh vegetables and herbs.
It is worth noting that there are no right or wrong cooking methods for wild rice. Despite the fact that the articles and videos tell you how to cook wild rice in the only correct way, everyone finds the best option for themselves, while the rice can be slightly harsh or, on the contrary, completely boiled. Boiling wild rice can be carried out not only in water, but also with the addition of meat broths, cranberries, sage, ginger, soy sauce.