Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the rice in soft water with a little coarse sea salt for several hours.
Bring a pot of water to a rapid boil.
Cook
Add the soaked rice to the boiling water and boil for about 20 minutes.
Reduce the amount of salt in your stew based on the salt used for soaking the rice.
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 gives the cooked grains their body and texture.
The step that matters
Add the rice to a rapid boil. Adding cold rice can drop the water temperature and slow the boil. Keeping the water at a rapid boil helps the grains cook evenly and keeps them from 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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