Southern Way of Boiling Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over the rice and rinse it in cold water until perfectly clean.
Cook
Put the rice in a pot of boiling water.
Boil hard for 17 minutes.
Drain off the water closely.
Steam
Let it steam for 15 minutes with the lid off.
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
- Forms the body of the dish; its starch sets as it cooks and absorbs water.
- Boiling water
- Cooks the rice by hydrating its starch grains until they soften.
The step that matters
Drain off the water closely. Rice left in excess water turns mushy as its starch keeps absorbing liquid, while draining at the right moment lets the grains dry and separate during steaming.
“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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