To Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Rinse the rice in a bowl of water, rubbing it with your hand.
Pour off the water until it is clear.
Cook
In a pot, combine the rinsed rice with 2½ cups of cold water and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Cover the pot and bring it to a boil over high heat for 10 minutes.
Finish
Pour off most of the water.
Move the pot to a low heat to soak and dry for 15 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Its starch absorbs water and swells, becoming tender and forming the body of the dish.
- Cold water
- Hydrates the starch so the grains cook through evenly as the water heats.
The step that matters
Rinse the rice until the water runs clear. Rinsing washes away surface starch that would otherwise leach out during cooking and make the grains sticky and clumped together.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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