To Prepare and Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash and pick the rice.
Add the rice, water, and salt to a pot.
Cook
Boil over high heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Pour off most of the water, leaving a little for steaming.
Cover the pot and steam on low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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
- Provides the starch that cooks into the grains and forms the main body of the dish.
- Water
- Hydrates the rice starch so the grains soften and swell as they cook.
The step that matters
Pouring off the water before steaming. Leaving too much water makes the rice soggy, while too little leaves it dry or scorched. Keeping a small amount lets the grains finish cooking gently in steam.
“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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