Boiled Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
Wash the rice and sprinkle it into the boiling water.
Cook
Add salt and boil rapidly for 25 minutes without stirring.
If tender, drain the rice in a colander.
Steam and serve
Leave the colander over the pot of hot water to steam for 10 minutes.
Serve without covering.
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 grains absorb boiling water, swell and soften into tender, separate grains.
The step that matters
Boil rapidly without stirring. Rapid boiling keeps the water moving so the grains cook evenly. Stirring rubs loose surface starch off the grains, which can make the rice gummy and sticky.
“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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