Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the rice well.
Cook
Boil the rice in 2 quarts of slightly salted water for about 15 minutes.
Drain the rice in a colander.
Rest and serve
Cover the rice with a thick cloth for about 10 minutes to absorb moisture.
Fluff the rice with a fork and serve very hot.
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 boiling water to form the cooked grains.
The step that matters
Draining the rice. Rice left in standing water keeps absorbing it and turns soft and mushy. Draining promptly stops the cooking, and the covered rest then lets residual steam finish the grains evenly.
“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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