Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean and wash the rice.
Cook
Stir the rice into boiling salted water and boil for 5 minutes.
Place the kettle in a fireless cooker and let it sit for 3 hours.
You can leave it overnight without overcooking.
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
- Provides the starch that is cooked into the grains, giving the dish its body.
- Water
- Hydrates the rice grains so they soften and cook through evenly.
The step that matters
Boiling for 5 minutes, then holding in the fireless cooker. The brief boil starts gelatinizing the starch and the grains then finish cooking with residual heat. Too long a boil can make the rice mushy before the holding period.
“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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