To Boil Rice
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a pot of water to a boil and add a pinch of salt.
Add enough rice to cover the water.
Boil for twenty minutes without stirring.
Strain the rice through a colander and serve.
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 as it cooks, forming the body of the dish.
The step that matters
Boil for twenty minutes without stirring. Stirring releases surface starch from the grains, which makes the rice gluey. Leaving it undisturbed keeps the grains separate and lets them cook evenly in the boiling water.
“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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