21 Tips For Cooking Rice

21 TOP SECRETS OF COOKING A PERFECT RICE

1. Fry toasting your raw washed rice in vegetable oil, before using it to cook your rice, makes it brown a bit, gives it a beautiful flavour and also makes it not to stick together when cooked.
2. Colour, texture, flavour are the main things needed to cook a perfect rice.
3. Using butter to cook your rice would make the rice to look shiny, not to stick together and add flavour to it.
4. If you want your white rice to remain perfectly well the next day, cook it without adding salt in it.
5. For your best rice texture, it is always good to use long grain rice, because it has lesser starch than the short grain rice.
6. Parboiling the rice helps to remove the starchy content of the rice, which makes the grains to clump together when cooking.
7. If you fry your rice very well, it will hardly go bad.
8. For your rice not to stick together or become soggy, use less water, reduce the heat/flame to the lowest, cover it with aluminum foil and allow it steam. You can also prepare it like this and bake it in the oven. Steam is what is needed to cook a perfect rice.
9. If you want your rice to have great taste and flavour, make sure you fry all your spices, herbs and seasonings perfectly, before using it to cook the rice.
10. Curry powder, thyme, bay leaf, chicken stock and jollof rice spice mix are the secret ingredients of cooking a perfect mouthwatering jollof rice or fried rice.
11. It is best to study your rice as to know the level of water you should add, inorder to avoid soggy rice at the end.
12. When cooking your rice, the timing for adding each Ingredient is very important for a perfect rice.
13. When cooking, once you have added the rice, make sure you don’t turn the rice too much like you are making Amala, so as to allow it to cook perfectly.
14. If your rice is burnt, you can place a slice of bread on it, the burnt smell will go off. Please, after adding the bread slice, place the pot lid/cover on and leave to cook for about 5 minutes to absorb all that burnt smell, then you will see the magic.
15. Do not use too much water to cook your jollof rice, as steam is really what is needed to cook a perfect jollof rice.
16. Chicken or turkey stock is the best stock to prepare a delicious rice, because of their massive taste. It is best to use more chicken stock than water or an equal ratio to cook your rice for a perfect taste.
17. To warm your leftover white rice, don’t scatter it in the pot. Just sprinkle little water and simmer on a very low heat until it is hot. No one will know you just warm it. You can also warm it in your oven or microwave.
18. If your rice is burnt, but not soft for consumption, reduce the heat to low heat, then cover your rice with aluminum foil paper or rice bag and then cover the pot tightly and cook it, until it gets soft to your choice. You can also use a clean kitchen towel or paper towel to drain out the excess water from it.
19. Whenever, you are cooking any of the foodstuff like rice, always boil the water, before adding the rice, it is not good to start cooking it in cold water.
20. Adding few drops of lemon juice in the water, before boiling the rice, helps to make the rice whiter and have a separate grain.
21. Washing your rice thoroughly with salt, before parboiling it, helps to remove the starch from the rice and also helps to cook the rice without parboiling it.

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