I don’t know how many folks I know that don’t know how to make rice. It’s easy! You don’t need to buy the expensive minute rice. Anyone can make rice, quick, easy and you don’t need a fancy rice steamer either!
You start out with measured water.
However much rice you want to end up with for dinner, well that’s how much water you start out with. So if you need two cups of completed rice for dinner, start with two cups of water. If you need three cups of rice to feed your family then start with three cups of water.
Put the measured water in a pan and set your burner to a high setting and get it boiling.
Once it reaches a full boil, put in your plain white rice (NOT minute rice). You put in exactly HALF as much rice as you put in water. For two cups of water – you’ll need one cup of rice. Three cups of water is 1 ½ cups rice.
Turn the burner to it’s lowest setting, put a lid on the pan and do something else for twenty minutes.
For the first few times you might want to watch the rice, some stoves will finish the rice in 15 minutes.
Assumingly you’ve been reading your entree, and with practice you’ll be able to have the rice finish as the same time as your entre.
Once you’ve mastered plain rice, you can then do variations.
You can use chicken broth instead of water. You can add some powdered chicken broth to the rice (or beef broth depending upon your entrée.) You can add dehydrated onions at the beginning, or fresh onions, or peppers or just about anything! You can even add a small amount of frozen broccoli and they’ll cook together.
Try it! Rice cooked from whole grain rice is SO much cheaper than minute rice or a boxed rice mix!
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