Help me with white rice

knitlove · 02-23-2016, 03:57 PM

I am trying to switch to white rice because of the arsenic.

I had a wonderful bullet proof recipie for my short grain brown rice. I did it in the oven and loved it.

I looked up a recommended white rice oven recipie and the rice is all mushie. It will work and would sture-fri up great but it really isn't want I want with my curry.

Help me give me your best recipie.

2sunshines · 02-23-2016, 03:59 PM

I use my rice cooker and get great white rice every time.

Do you own a rice cooker?

ValiantJoy07 · 02-23-2016, 04:02 PM

Perfect sticky rice (think Chinese restaurant)

Ratio: 1 cup of rice to 2/cups of water. Bring water to a boil add rice, return to a simmer and stir well. Cover I t and reduce to low. Let simmer with cover for 15-17 minutes (until no bubbles of water are coming up from rice). Leave it be until the timer dings don't lift the lid before!

From More With Less cook book.

ViolaMum · 02-23-2016, 04:08 PM

If you don't have a rice cooker, rinse 2 cups of rise in a fine-mesh strainer.

Saute it in 1T butter or oil until the grains are chalky and opaque.

Add 1 tsp salt, 3 c water, bring to a boil, reduce to low simmer and cook 18-20 min.

Off heat, put a folded kitchen towel on the pot and replace the lid. Let stand 10-15 minutes, fluff with a fork, and serve. Makes about 6 cups.

(That's the Cook's Illustrated recipe)

knitlove · 03-30-2016, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViolaMum

If you don't have a rice cooker, rinse 2 cups of rise in a fine-mesh strainer.

Saute it in 1T butter or oil until the grains are chalky and opaque.

Add 1 tsp salt, 3 c water, bring to a boil, reduce to low simmer and cook 18-20 min.

Off heat, put a folded kitchen towel on the pot and replace the lid. Let stand 10-15 minutes, fluff with a fork, and serve. Makes about 6 cups.

(That's the Cook's Illustrated recipe)

I wrote this down so I can finally try it. What I had been useing was the cooks recipie for brown rice. Thank you.

knitlove · 03-31-2016, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knitlove

I wrote this down so I can finally try it. What I had been useing was the cooks recipie for brown rice. Thank you.

So I tried last night and it wasn't done at the end. I made it work but I wasn't happy with it.

Help me!!

2sunshines · 03-31-2016, 01:44 PM

I use a rice cooker for supreme simplicity

but I've been working on adding different things to the cooker to see the results. So far I've been very happy.

I just threw white rice, water, olive oil, basil and garlic powder in the rice cooker. I'm sure it will be delicious.

Mother of Sons · 03-31-2016, 01:45 PM

For another method...

Rinse 1.5 cups rice. Drain and put rice in a pot with 2.5 cups of water. Boil uncovered until there are pits in the surface of the rice and most of the surface water is gone. Cover and reduce heat to low for 15 minutes. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving

ECingMama · 03-31-2016, 02:42 PM

2 cups water, 2 cups rice
5 minutes in Instant Pot

knitlove · 03-31-2016, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ECingMama

2 cups water, 2 cups rice
5 minutes in Instant Pot

So give me a prusher setting on the instapot. I am not buying g another application but I have a prusher cooker.

ViolaMum · 03-31-2016, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knitlove

So I tried last night and it wasn't done at the end. I made it work but I wasn't happy with it.

Help me!!

When you say it wasn't done, was the rice hard and all the water absorbed, or was there water left in the pot? If it was the former, add more water, bring to a boil, then simmer and cook a little longer. I'd add 1/4 cup more water next time. If it was the latter, just let it cook longer before checking.

I've found that fluffing rice with a fork, putting the lid back on and letting it sit a few minutes before serving is important and really DOES make a difference. I do that when I make rice on the stove and when I use a rice cooker. (I've never used a pressure cooker for rice, but I imagine it would be the same.)

Mother of Sons · 03-31-2016, 05:22 PM

I've used my pressure cooker but it takes 25 minutes between pressurizing, cooking and depressurization.

ECingMama · 03-31-2016, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mother of Sons

I've used my pressure cooker but it takes 25 minutes between pressurizing, cooking and depressurization.

It took about 8 minutes for all of it. I do a quick release. I add the water and turn it on "keep warm" white warms up the water while I'm getting the rice out.

knitlove · 03-31-2016, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ViolaMum

When you say it wasn't done, was the rice hard and all the water absorbed, or was there water left in the pot? If it was the former, add more water, bring to a boil, then simmer and cook a little longer. I'd add 1/4 cup more water next time. If it was the latter, just let it cook longer before checking.

I've found that fluffing rice with a fork, putting the lid back on and letting it sit a few minutes before serving is important and really DOES make a difference. I do that when I make rice on the stove and when I use a rice cooker. (I've never used a pressure cooker for rice, but I imagine it would be the same.)

There was water left and the rice wasn't done. I did end up cooking it longer, and it ended up all stickie.

I really want to find a fool proof it is always perfectly done like I had for brown rice.

I will look at pusher cooker rice directions.

Soliloquy · 03-31-2016, 07:51 PM

The Instant Pot has slightly less pressure than a regular pressure cooker so I'd go with what you find. I love my Instant Pot for rice. It's absolutely perfect and I never have to worry about it scorching if I get caught up with something else.

02-23-2016, 03:57 PM	#1
knitlove Rose Garden Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle area Posts: 21,260	Help me with white rice I am trying to switch to white rice because of the arsenic. I had a wonderful bullet proof recipie for my short grain brown rice. I did it in the oven and loved it. I looked up a recommended white rice oven recipie and the rice is all mushie. It will work and would sture-fri up great but it really isn't want I want with my curry. Help me give me your best recipie. __________________ Wife to a wonderful DH for 19 years. Momma to my 29 weeker Early Bird who is thirteen and my little Wiggle Worm born 33 weeks who is nine. How do I have a teenager?! I don't feel ready for this.

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2sunshines Moderator in Celebrations, Cloth Diapering & EC, Empty Arms, Prayer & Praise, and Swap n' Shop Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 27,027	Re: Help me with white rice I use my rice cooker and get great white rice every time. Do you own a rice cooker? __________________ married 25 years mom to two young adults (23 and 20) and two teens (17 and 15)

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ValiantJoy07 Rose Garden "Take Joy Home, And make a place in thy great heart for her...Joy is the grace we say to God." ~Jean Ingelow~ Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Forest Posts: 16,337	Re: Help me with white rice Perfect sticky rice (think Chinese restaurant) Ratio: 1 cup of rice to 2/cups of water. Bring water to a boil add rice, return to a simmer and stir well. Cover I t and reduce to low. Let simmer with cover for 15-17 minutes (until no bubbles of water are coming up from rice). Leave it be until the timer dings don't lift the lid before! From More With Less cook book. __________________ Hannah Joy Intuitive People Loving Introvert Married since '05 to Ryan software and web applications developer. Homeschooling Mama to my 5 Joys... dd1 RJ (12/07), dd2 AJ (08/09), dd3 PJ (01/12), ds1 Ziggy (09/15), ds2 Sunny (05/18) Enjoying a Healing Diet to manage SPD and other health challenges. Sorry for the typos and sloppy grammar I don't have a good excuse anymore.

02-23-2016, 04:08 PM	#4
ViolaMum Rose Garden Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 5,542	Re: Help me with white rice If you don't have a rice cooker, rinse 2 cups of rise in a fine-mesh strainer. Saute it in 1T butter or oil until the grains are chalky and opaque. Add 1 tsp salt, 3 c water, bring to a boil, reduce to low simmer and cook 18-20 min. Off heat, put a folded kitchen towel on the pot and replace the lid. Let stand 10-15 minutes, fluff with a fork, and serve. Makes about 6 cups. (That's the Cook's Illustrated recipe) __________________ Darcy married to my Photographic Genius (1/00) Mom to: Prima, Secunda, Tertia, and Quarta Youth and Beauty are fleeting, but the ability to bake a great chocolate cake lasts forever!

03-31-2016, 01:44 PM	#7
2sunshines Moderator in Celebrations, Cloth Diapering & EC, Empty Arms, Prayer & Praise, and Swap n' Shop Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 27,027	Re: Help me with white rice I use a rice cooker for supreme simplicity but I've been working on adding different things to the cooker to see the results. So far I've been very happy. I just threw white rice, water, olive oil, basil and garlic powder in the rice cooker. I'm sure it will be delicious. __________________ married 25 years mom to two young adults (23 and 20) and two teens (17 and 15)

03-31-2016, 01:45 PM	#8
Mother of Sons Rose Garden My kid shoots laser beams from his hands Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 21,900	Re: Help me with white rice For another method... Rinse 1.5 cups rice. Drain and put rice in a pot with 2.5 cups of water. Boil uncovered until there are pits in the surface of the rice and most of the surface water is gone. Cover and reduce heat to low for 15 minutes. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving

03-31-2016, 02:42 PM	#9
ECingMama Rose Garden Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 16,750	Re: Help me with white rice 2 cups water, 2 cups rice 5 minutes in Instant Pot __________________ ENFp Wife who is thankful to be in love....17 years Homeschooling Mom of three....15 DD dancer and 12 DS mountain biker and 5 DD calico critter and dolly mommy 12/2014 8/2015 11/2015 9/2016

03-31-2016, 05:22 PM	#12
Mother of Sons Rose Garden My kid shoots laser beams from his hands Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 21,900	Re: Help me with white rice I've used my pressure cooker but it takes 25 minutes between pressurizing, cooking and depressurization.

03-31-2016, 07:51 PM	#15
Soliloquy Rose Garden Why climb a mountain? Because it's there! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Selkirk Mountains Posts: 52,860	Re: Help me with white rice The Instant Pot has slightly less pressure than a regular pressure cooker so I'd go with what you find. I love my Instant Pot for rice. It's absolutely perfect and I never have to worry about it scorching if I get caught up with something else.

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