To Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the water in a large pot and add the salt.
Wash the rice in several changes of water.
Cook and finish
Add the rice to the boiling water and cook for 15 minutes.
Strain the rice in a colander and rinse with cold water.
Return the rice to a clean saucepan and heat on the stove, stirring continuously with a fork until dry and 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
- Provides the starch that cooks into the grains, so it forms the body of the dish.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the cooking water so the rice is flavoured as it absorbs it.
The step that matters
Strain and rinse the rice after cooking. Rinsing with cold water stops the cooking and washes off surface starch, so the grains stay separate instead of clumping.
“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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