Steamed Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over and wash the rice thoroughly.
Combine rice, boiling water, and salt in a bowl.
Steam
Place the bowl in a steamer over rapidly boiling water.
Cook until the rice is soft, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Its starch softens and swells as it cooks, forming the tender body of the dish.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the rice starch so the grains absorb moisture and soften through steaming.
The step that matters
Keep the water rapidly boiling under the steamer. Rapidly boiling water produces steady steam that heats the bowl evenly. If the water drops to a weak simmer, steam slows, and the rice softens slowly and unevenly.
“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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