To Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick and wash the rice.
Put the rice in a pot with the cold water.
Cook
Cover the pot and bring it to a boil.
Cook until the rice is tender, about 20 minutes over medium heat.
Let it steam for a few minutes after cooking to ensure each grain stands alone.
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
- Starch that softens and swells in water to become the tender, edible grain.
- Cold water
- Hydrates the rice grains and cooks them evenly into a tender texture.
The step that matters
Letting the rice steam after cooking. Resting off the heat lets residual steam finish absorbing water and firm the grains, so they separate instead of turning sticky or mushy.
“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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