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Rice is considered one of the oldest cereal crops, the spread of which all over the world began from the East. In all Asian countries without exception, not a single meal is complete without rice, rice replaces bread in this region.
The popularity of rice is explained by the cheapness of this product, availability, low calorie content and useful properties. But the most important property that rice is endowed with is its ability to quickly satisfy hunger. This is due to the high content of carbohydrates, which not only satisfy hunger and saturate the body, but also contribute to the improvement of human brain activity.
Due to the fact that rice is widespread throughout the planet, there are a huge number of its varieties. First of all, there are three main groups of rice according to the shape of its grains: round-grain, long-grain and medium-grain. Round grain rice is used for preparing sushi, porridge, medium grain for preparing main dishes with a soft consistency, and long grain – for crumbly dishes.
The division of rice into groups is also based on its color. Allocate white rice, brown rice and black (wild) rice.
The largest group is white rice, which in turn is subdivided into polished and unpolished. Brown rice is white rice that has not gone through all the processing steps, so it retains its color.
Black or wild rice has become very popular in recent years, in an era of healthy lifestyles and natural foods. Indeed, due to the fact that it is not processed, all useful substances are preserved in it.
The nutritional value of rice is 330 kcal. If you do not eat rice with fatty sauces and in combination with meat, then it can be called a dietary product.
The uniqueness of rice lies in the fact that it can be used to prepare any kind of dishes, from sweet desserts to complex dishes such as Japanese sushi, Italian risotto, the preparation of Spanish paella requires certain knowledge and skills.
Rice porridge with pumpkin
Delicious and, most importantly, beautiful porridge that raises appetite and mood.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin – 500 gr.
- Rice – 1 glass
- Sugar – 2 st. l.
- Milk – 700 ml.
- Vanilla – 1 pinch
Cut the pumpkin into small cubes, after peeling it off. Put it in a saucepan, add rice, sugar and vanilla. Sugar can be replaced with honey, in this case, porridge will be even more useful, but you need to add it at the very end.
Pour milk over the pumpkin and cook over low heat until tender. Serve the porridge, garnish with a small piece of butter.
Vegetarian rice soup
Rice is a part of many soups, in Russia the most popular rice soup is kharcho, you can find its recipes on our website, and now we will tell you how to make a simple, tasty and healthy soup with rice.
Ingredients:
- Small zucchini – 1 pc.
- Rice – 20 g.
- Butter – 10 gr.
- Milk – 40 ml.
- Cream – 40 ml.
- Flour – 10 gr.
- Salt – to taste
Boil the washed rice until it is very boiled. Remove the skin and core from the vegetable marrow, cut into cubes and sauté in a little water until tender.
Place the rice and zucchini in a blender and blend until smooth. Add cream, milk and vegetable stock and stir again.
Bring to a boil and simmer a little. The soup is ready to serve, garnished with a drop of cream or herbs.
Aromatic rice with pumpkin and pine nuts
Rice goes well with a large number of vegetables, thanks to which you can create a variety of dishes from it.
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin – 200 gr.
- Rice – 200 g.
- Bulb – 1 pcs.
- Pine nuts – 1 handful
- Rosemary – 2 sprigs
- Thyme – 2 sprigs
- Tarragon – 3 twigs
- White wine – 100 ml.
- Olive oil – 1 Art. l
- Salt – to taste
- Pepper to taste
Chop the onion finely and fry it in saucepans until a transparent color is formed.
Peel the pumpkin, cut into small cubes and add to the onion. Season with salt and pepper. Add rice, stir, add thyme and rosemary. Pour in the wine, increase the heat and let it evaporate too. Then add hot water in an amount so that it completely covers the rice.
Cover, reduce heat and cook for 15 minutes.
Fry pine nuts in a dry frying pan. Tarragon finely mode. Extract the sprigs of thyme and rosemary from the finished rice. Serve on the table, garnished with nuts and tarragon.
Boiled rice for a side dish to any dishes
Many housewives faced the problem of how to boil rice so that it does not turn into porridge, it does not stick or burn. Let’s try to help with this.
Ingredients:
- Round grain rice – 1 glass
- Water – 4 glasses
- Salt – to taste
If you took medium or long grain rice for this recipe, then reduce the amount of water to 2 glasses.
Rinse the rice thoroughly until the water from under it becomes clear.
Pour 4 or 2 cups of water into a saucepan, depending on the type of rice. When the water boils, add salt and rice. Cook the rice for 5 minutes over high heat.
After that, turn off the heat, cover the pan with a lid and leave for 30 minutes. Loose rice is ready, you can serve it as a side dish for meat and fish dishes.
Rice casserole in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
- Rice – 200 g.
- Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
- Egg – 1-2 pcs.
- Raisins – 80 gr.
- Sour cream – 50 gr.
- Butter for greasing the pan
- Sugar – 70 gr.
Soak the raisins in hot water, drain the water after 15 minutes and dry the raisins. Boil rice, cool and mix all the ingredients: rice, cottage cheese, egg, raisins, sugar.
Grease the multicooker pan with butter.
Put the rice and curd mass in a saucepan and smooth.
Bake in the “Baking” mode for 40-60 minutes. If the mass is liquid, then the baking time should be increased slightly.
When the casserole is ready, cool it in a slow cooker, and then put it out so that it does not fall apart hot when taken out.
Serve the rice casserole warm with sour cream or jam.
Pilaf classic
Ingredients:
- Meat (whatever you like) or poultry (any: chicken, legs, duck, turkey) – 1,5 kg.
- Vegetable oil (sesame, sunflower, soybean) – 300 gr.
- Onions – 150 gr.
- Carrots – 1 kg.
- Rice – 900 g.
- Garlic – 2-3 heads
- Turmeric – 1/2 tsp.
Cut the meat into small pieces. Cut the carrots into cubes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
Rinse the rice and soak in warm water for 1-1,5 hours. Salt the water a little.
We cook pilaf in a cauldron. Put the cauldron on fire, add oil and heat over high heat. Put the meat in a cauldron and fry it until a reddish-brown hue. Add onion, 1 tsp. salt and mix the contents of the cauldron so that the onion is at the bottom of the cauldron, and the meat is on top.
After 6-8 minutes, pour in boiled water so that it covers the meat. Bring water to a boil and reduce heat to low. Mix everything and simmer under the lid.
After 30-40 minutes, stir and add the carrots, cover again and simmer for 20 minutes. Then add seasonings to taste, rice, turmeric. Add hot boiled water so that it is about 2,5-3 cm above the rice level. Close the lid and put on full heat.
Peel the garlic and put the whole heads in pilaf 3-4 minutes after pouring the rice with water.
After there is no water left, reduce the heat to low and turn off the stove after 15 minutes. Serve hot.
Risotto with seafood
Ingredients:
- Bulb onions – 100 gr.
- Rice Carnaroli – 300 gr.
- Olive oil – 40 ml.
- Dry white wine (table) – 200 ml.
- Saffron – 1/2 tsp.
- Fish broth – 1000 ml.
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Seafood cocktail – 500 gr.
Finely chop the onion and sauté in olive oil. Add rice. After 2-3 minutes, pour in the wine and stir until the wine is absorbed, add saffron and 150 gr. broth. Add the broth little by little each time the previous volume is absorbed. Stir the risotto each time.
As soon as the rice is cooked and turns yellow, salt to taste and add seafood. Cook for another 5 minutes. Serve the risotto hot.
Rolls
There are a great many rolls. Let’s make California rolls.
Ingredients:
- Avocado – 10 gr. (2 slices)
- Tobiko caviar – 1 tsp
- Crab meat – 50 gr.
- Rice (sushi-mesh) – 100 gr.
- Nori – 1 sheet
Boil rice. Slice the avocado. Take the rice with wet hands and form a “sausage” out of it, while mashing it well. Place the rice on the bucket elevator sheet and spread over the sheet, leaving the strip of seaweed not filled with rice. Turn the sheet over so that the rice is under the sheet.
Lay out a lane of mayonnaise, on which we put the “filling” of the rolls. Put crab meat, avocado on mayonnaise. Using a mat, fold the roll, pressing firmly so that the roll does not crumble and is elastic. Shape it over the mat, trim the ends.
Decorate the “sausage” with flying fish roe – tobiko and cut into portions with a sharp, dipped in water, large knife.
Bon appetit!
In all cuisines of the world, a huge number of dishes are prepared from rice, among which there are many cereals, casseroles, vegetarian dishes, the recipes of which you can find on our website.