How to cook rice? There are many ways to cook rice, and each of them gives the dish a special taste.

How to cook rice: Far Eastern way

Rice (5 tbsp.) Rinse thoroughly, pour 6 tbsp. cold water and bring to a boil over very high heat under the lid. 10 minutes cook rice on medium heat, another 10 - on a small one. Turn off the rice, cover with a napkin, cover and soak for 10 minutes.

How to cook rice: Azerbaijani way

Wide and deep pan half fill with salted boiling water. Tie gauze over the top of the pan, pour the washed rice onto it, put a piece of butter on top. Cover the pot with a bowl, put on the fire and cook the rice for a couple of 20-25 minutes.

How to cook rice: Japanese way

In boiling salted water (1.5 tbsp.), Pour in the same amount of washed rice. Close saucepan with a lid and cook rice for 12 minutes. Ideally, the first 3 minutes of fire should be strong, then 7 minutes moderate and 2 - weak. Set aside the rice and leave under the lid for another 12 minutes.

How to cook rice: Vietnamese way

1 tbsp. rice sort out. Without washing, fry in 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil to light beige or pinkish color. Put it in a saucepan, pour a glass of boiling water over it, cover with a lid and stew until fully evaporated.

How to cook rice: Indian way

600 g of rice, rinse 5 times, soak for 30 minutes. Drain, fill with 1.7 liters. water and, until boils, constantly stir. Boil for 30 minutes after boiling. Wash prepared rice, pour with melted butter and salt.

How to cook rice: Brass way

In a saucepan, dissolve 50 g of margarine, pour in the washed rice (1.5 tbsp.) And fry, stirring slightly. When the grains become transparent and all the fat is absorbed, pour in boiling water or broth and cook, without stirring, for about 20 minutes, adding liquid as needed. Then put in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 ° C.

How to cook rice: Rice for sushi and rolls

Method 1.  Rinse the rice until the water is clear. Fill with water, drain in an hour and boil rice in fresh water. When it boils, cover the pot with a lid, remove it after 3-4 minutes, reduce heat and cook until the liquid is completely evaporated. After that, remove the rice from the heat and do not touch for 15 minutes. Ready rice pour a mixture of rice vinegar, sugar, salt. Stir and cool.

Method 2 Rinse the rice several times, cover with water (300 ml of water for 200 g of rice), cook for 2 minutes, then set aside for 10 minutes so that it swells and steamed. Open the lid and leave for another 10-15 minutes. Add 1 tsp. salt and sugar and 2 tbsp. l rice vinegar, mix.

Method 3.  Wash rice several times, rubbing it with your palms. Fill with water and leave for an hour. Drain and cook rice in new water (pour in 1/5 part more than rice) over medium heat under the lid. As it boils, boil 10 minutes over low heat. Turn off and leave for 10 minutes.

How to cook rice

• Cook rice in a thick-walled saucepan. A thin pan is heated unevenly, and the croup may be burnt at the bottom, and remain moist on top.
• Rice will not boil soft if you add a few spoons of cold milk to boiling water or lemon juice  (1 tbsp. For 1 l. Of water).
• To prevent the rice from burning, place a thin flat-cake dough at the bottom of the pan.
• While cooking rice porridge, do not add sugar: this hardens the rice.
• Do not wash cooked rice with cold water.
• Crumbly rice can be filled with browned tomato mashed potatoes or tomato mixed with browned vegetables.
• Rice porridge will be tastier if you put whipped protein in it before serving.

Enjoy your meal!

  It would seem that it may be easier for the hostess than to cook the Saracen grain for a side dish or for salad, because we still remember the tale of porridge from the ax. But no, it is not quite easy, because of a single perfect recipe  how to cook rice in a pan does not exist. Cooking methods are different proportions of water and grain, which makes it possible to get a boiled side dish used for different dishes.

A rice grain garnish can be prepared from different varieties, but we will talk about the most popular and used varieties in our kitchens - this is long grain and round grain rice.

How to cook long grain rice in a saucepan

Before cooking long grain rice in water, one should keep in mind that this variety is increased 3 times. Knowing this nuance will help to correctly determine the right amount of dry grain for preparing portions.

Stages of cooking long grain rice

1. We rinse the rice from the starch through a sieve or in a saucepan, just drain the water. Rinse 2-3 times until the white precipitate completely disappears.
2. If cooking time needs to be reduced, rice is soaked for 20 minutes. This step can be skipped.
3. The required ratio of rice and water is 1: 2; if we determine visually, then water should cover rice with 2 fingers.
4. We bring the grain poured in with water to a boil, keep on high heat for 3 minutes and reduce the heat to medium.
5. On medium heat, rice stand for 7 minutes and another 2 minutes for weak.
6. Until fully cooked, the grain is boiled under a tightly closed lid. The full stage of cooking takes 12 minutes, if the grain is pre-soaked, then 8-10 minutes.

After cooking, the rice for some time is still left to reach in the pan. The rice prepared in a similar way can be used for various dishes - both for salads, and for a garnish.

In order to cook a delicious side dish of round grain rice, we follow the same cooking rules as for long grain: that is, wash off starch, soak it (you can skip this step) and cook for 12 minutes under a tightly closed lid.

• For cooking, we necessarily use a pot with a thick bottom, if there is no one - choose a cauldron.
• So that rice does not stick together, the ratio of grain and water should be 1: 1.5, that is, 200 g of rice - 300 ml of water.

Typically, round grain rice is used to make sushi and rolls, and there, as you know, you need a sticky base. For this basis, cook rice in proportion with water 1: 2. After the end of the rice is not washed.

How to cook crumbly rice for pilaf

The recipe for crumbly rice for pilaf is no different from the above recipes and the steps are absolutely identical.

In addition to general rules, there are a few tips to cook a delicious side dish.

1. It will be necessary to wash rice from starch.
2. Rice is laid only in cold water.
3. In a saucepan with water, add a tablespoon of sunflower or butter.
4. To make pilaf, you need fried meat, onions and carrots, in layers of which they transfer rice. Cook pilaf is better in the pot.

The garnish in Russian cuisine has the appearance of crumbly porridge. That is why we try to perfectly wash the Saracen grain from starch and cook it according to all the rules: these are the correct proportions of water and the ideal 12 minutes for cooking ordinary rice (there are varieties that are cooked for 30-40 minutes).

For lovers of various sauces, crumbly rice will be an excellent option for both breakfast and dinner.

A good addition to rice garnish will be vegetables served on their own or a salad with various dressings. Olive oil and balsamic vinegar are considered to be the ideal complement to the vegetable mix - a minimum of calories and a maximum of useful nutrients for the body.

How to cook rice for paella

To prepare the famous Italian dish, you do not need a pan at all, but a wide pan with two handles of the same name - paella.

The consistency of cooked rice should be soft, but not at all digested. The cooking process requires certain skills: it will be necessary to add water or broth, reduce or increase the fire under the paella and in no case DO NOT interfere with rice.

The ideal rice for paella is Valencian medium-grained (for example, bomba or bahia). But if you did not find any on the shelves of stores, any round, well-absorbent rice, but not steamed, is fine.

As for rolls, and sushi the paella grain is not washed!

How to cook rice for kharcho

On the Internet, you can find different recipes for kharcho soup, which differ in the way rice is cooked: they can be poured into dry boiling kharcho, or boiled separately and added to the soup already prepared.

Consider the second option and find out how to cook rice for kharcho.

• The first stage - wash off the starch from rice.
• The proportions of water and rice - 1: 2.
• Cooking time - 12 minutes.

After the liquid soup of lamb and vegetables (soup kharcho) is cooked, warm boiled rice is put in the plate, a clove of garlic is crushed and the whole still-life is filled with soup.

To make salads with rice, look for a bag of long grain Saracen grain in your bins - it is considered to be the perfect salad variety. The variety is also perfect for filling in pies and for making garnish.

Rice grain of this type absorbs little water, it is always crumbly in a dish and does not stick together.

Stages of cooking:

• Wash in several waters until the disappearance of the white turbidity.
• The proportions of rice - water: 1: 1.5.
• Cooking time: 3 minutes on high heat, 7 - medium heat and 2 minutes on low.
• After cooking, wash the rice in a sieve or colander and scatter on a tray to dry in a thin layer.

Store in a plastic container with a lid on the middle shelf of the refrigerator, falling asleep in the container already completely cooled rice side dish.

Question answer

How much time to cook rice

• Dry rice grain - 12 minutes (3 minutes strong fire, 7 - medium, 2 - weak). Insist under the lid for 10 minutes.
• Pre-soaked grain for 30 minutes - 8 minutes. Insist, as in the version with a dry grain.
• Rare varieties:
    - black rice Nerone cooks 60-70 minutes, a glass of dry grain can take up to 2.5 liters of liquid;
    - Bhutanese red rice is cooked for 45 minutes, and if it is soaked overnight, the cooking time is reduced to 20 minutes.

How much rice is in a glass

• A glass of 200 grams - 190 grams.
• Faceted glass (250 grams) - 230 grams.

The ratio of rice and water

How much water to take a glass of rice, we described above in the recipes, but recall once again:

• cooking dry rice grain - 1: 2;
• rice for sushi - 1: 2.5;
• if cooking soaked rice - 1: 1.5.

Is the rice washed before cooking?

• Wash rice intended for garnish, for the preparation of salad rice and rice for fillings.
• Rice grain for paella or base for sushi and rolls is not washed, as we need to get sticky porridge.

Do I need to wash the rice after cooking

Rice can be washed if you need a crumbly side dish for salads or toppings. Otherwise, this is not necessary.

How much is stored boiled rice garnish

Store the garnish in a closed plastic container on the middle shelf of the refrigerator for 3-4 days.

How many calories in boiled rice

100 g of boiled rice contains 100 kcal.

How many servings of garnish is obtained from one cup of dry rice

With a cut glass (250 g) of dry rice grain, 4 large portions of a delicious side dish are obtained.

How much salt to put in rice

Following the old adage, nedosol on the table, but still I want to get a side dish with a good hit.

For 1 cup of rice and 2 glasses of water, add ½ tsp. coarse salt.

If the garnish is cooked in broth, then add salt to taste, because the liquid base will be salty.

Salted rice how to fix

If you suspect that you can not guess with the ambassador of the garnish, it is better to cook it without salt at all. Served sauces or salads with dressings will smooth the big picture.

Well, if all the same trouble happened, you can fix it in several ways:

• wash rice with boiled water;
• You can “lose” the rice by boiling it in unsalted water for a couple of minutes (the main thing is not to digest it);
• mix rice with minced meat and bake (used as an additive to minced meat);
• you can add it in the first dishes as a filler.

From our article you were able to make sure that it is not difficult to cook crumbly rice in a saucepan, the main thing you need to know which grade will be used, and where the future garnish is intended. We hope that the above tips on cooking rice grains will be useful to you.

We wish you successful kitchen experiments and enjoy your meal!

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In the kitchen, rice dishes are often presented with unpleasant surprises - the rice in them can stick together in one lump, boil down, turn into a smash, burn from the bottom, not boil until the end, be too watery, etc. recipe, but novice tips come in handy for beginners.

So, first of all you need to know that there are several varieties of rice, and each of them is cooked by its own rules. However, despite the variety, color and size of rice, the first thing to do with it is to rinse under cold water. Only when the water during washing will cease to grow turbid, can the rump be cooked.

Long grain polished rice contains very little starch, therefore when cooking grains do not stick together, and porridge turns out friable. Measure boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2 (two parts of water for one part of rice). While washing the rice, put water on the fire.

Important! You can not throw rice into cold water! So he absorbs a lot of excess moisture and when cooking grains will boil soft, lose integrity. As a result, porridge will turn out to be a single white viscous lump.

After waiting for the water to boil, salt it and put the washed rice into it without slowing down the fire. In the process of cooking in the pot with rice can not throw seasonings and oil. Be sure to cover the pan with a lid and try not to lift it until the end of cooking. So boil the cereal for about 7 minutes, then reduce the heat to a minimum and continue cooking for another 15 minutes.

Important! Interfere in the process of cooking can not be grits! By stirring the porridge, you will never achieve the effect of “rice to rice” - on the contrary, the croup will stick together.

After turning off the rice, leave it for some time just to stand in the pan under the lid - it will absorb the remaining water and reach. After 7-10 minutes, you can open the lid and fill the rice with oil.

Round rice contains a lot of starch, it is ideal for cooking puddings, sweet cereals and casseroles, rolls and sushi. It should be washed very carefully, water taken in a ratio of 1: 3 (water is three times more than rice). It is necessary to boil until all the water is absorbed.

Steamed rice has a beautiful transparent yellowish shade of grains. This is due to the fact that the cereal is not cleaned mechanically, but with steam (which, by the way, allows more vitamins to be stored in rice). Such rice requires a longer cooking time than the previous varieties. After boiling cook it for 20-25 minutes.

Longer cooking needs unpolished (brown) rice. This is rice in a natural shell, it is a real storehouse of minerals and vitamins, as well as a true friend of losing weight. Boil such cereal will have 40 minutes. And before cooking, in addition to washing, it does not hurt to pour cold salted water for 15 minutes.

Wild rice has a characteristic black color, and the output - a specific, not like the usual rice taste. It is poured with water in a ratio of 1: 5 and boiled for 40 minutes. This kind of rice is the perfect side dish for fish dishes.

How to cook rice

Rice is used for cooking first, second and sweet dishes, toppings and side dishes. Before cooking, rice should be poured on a strainer, turn on cold water and rinse it thoroughly. For cooking boiled rice it should be poured into cold water. If you put rice in a pot of boiling and salted water, the grains will remain intact.

Rice proportions
  Pour cold water into an un-enameled dish, following the proportions: for 1 cup of rice - 2 cups of water. Adhering to this proportion, you can no longer wonder - "how to cook rice".
  Put the pot on the fire, and bring the water to a boil. After that, salt, add rice itself and seasonings. Cook over low heat and with the lid closed until the water is completely boiled away. In the process of cooking rice does not need to stir.

How much to cook?
As soon as the water in the saucepan evaporate completely, then the rice is ready. By the time the rice is cooked for 15-20 minutes. Then, we shift the rice into a colander, let it drain the excess water, and shift it to a dish.
  In rice soup you need to cook for 20 minutes.

  The energy value of cooked rice is not high. Its caloric content is 140 kcal per 100 grams of product. Calorie white rice, not cooked, per 100 grams - 323 kcal.

Cooking  rice

1. When cooking rice increases in volume by three times.
  2. Before cooking in cold water, you can add one tablespoon of vegetable oil.
  3. For one cup of rice, add 1 tablespoon of salt.
  4. For cooking stuffed peppers, rice must first be boiled for 7 minutes.
  5. Salt and add seasoning before cooking.
  6. One cup of rice will be enough for four servings.
  7. Ready rice is stored in the refrigerator covered with a lid for 3-4 days.
  8. Rice is considered more useful unpolished, since most of the vitamins and amino acids are contained in the very shell of rice grains.

The following varieties of rice are distinguished:

1. Polished is a grained rice grain with a rough surface and a whole core that has been processed using grinding techniques.

2. Polished - grains of vitreous rice processed using a special machine, having a whole core and a smooth and shiny surface.

3. Crushed is a by-product obtained by processing rice grains.

According to the form:

1. Long grain rice. Grains of such rice are thin and long, well suited for meat and fish.

2. Medium grain rice. Grains of this sort of rice are up to half a centimeter long and are oval in shape, well suited for adding to soups and for making risotto.
  3. Round grain rice. Rice with round grains.

By color, rice is divided into:

1. White rice - during processing of which nutrients are stored in a minimum amount.

2. Brown rice - grains of this color are considered the most useful.

3. Black rice is wild rice, the grains of which have an elongated shape.

How to cook rice in a double boiler
The cooking time for rice in a double boiler is not much different from the usual cooking method, while the prepared rice saves more nutrients. The first step is to wash the rice and put it in a colander. When water is drained from the cereal, put it in a steamer. Pour water in a ratio of 1 cup of rice to 1 cup of water. Add salt and spices. Rice cook in a double boiler for 35 minutes, then shift in plates and serve.

How to cook rice in a slow cooker
The slow cooker greatly simplifies a person’s life, while the food prepared in this way is more tasty and more useful. To cook rice in a slow cooker, first rinse the rice with plenty of water. Put it in a slow cooker and add boiling water (Proportions: 3 multi-cups of rice - 5 multi-cups of water). Salt the rice, add butter and set the mode “Buckwheat” or “Rice”. Boil until the beep sounds. After that, decompose the prepared rice skeet.

How to cook rice in the microwave
Rice in the microwave is no less useful and tasty than rice cooked in a different way. Wash the rice. Put the rice in a special microwave container. Add salted water (boiling water) in the proportion: for 1 cup of rice - 2 glasses of water. Cover with a lid of rice. Microwave and set the power: 700-800 watts.
  Cook the rice in the microwave for 18 minutes. Every 5 minutes, rice should be stirred with a spoon. When rice is ready, leave it in the microwave for 15-20 minutes to infuse.

How to cook rice in a pan

Put the pan on the fire, pour in water and add salt. We sprinkle rice in proportion (1 tbsp. Cereals - 2 tbsp. Of water). Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, and cook on medium heat, under a closed lid for 15 minutes after the water in the pan boils.

Rice - cereal is universal, it serves as a side dish, is one of the components of the first and second courses, but what can be cooked from rice?

Rice milk porridge

Since childhood, we all love rice milk porridge, which is loved by both small children and adults. Her cooking does not require special culinary skills, and the combination with milk turns out very tasty and useful. Best cook rice porridge  for breakfast, then she will charge you with energy for the whole day. So if you are ready to try to cook rice porridge look, do you have all the ingredients you need for cooking:

1. Rice - 1 cup

2. Milk - 4 glass

3. Egg yolk - 1 piece

4. Sugar - 2 tsp.

5. Butter - 2 tablespoons

6. Salt to taste

The proportions of rice: 1 glass of cereal - 2 glasses of water.

How to cook rice milk porridge

Wash the cereal with warm water. Type a pot of water and put on fire. Boil. Put the rice in boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. After that, put the rice on a sieve and give a little time to glass the excess water.

Pour the milk into a small saucepan and put on the fire. Transfer rice into another saucepan, pour hot milk over it and cook for 15-20 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally. Then add salt, sugar, cover the saucepan with the lid and put in the oven for a few minutes. Rice milk porridge shift to a dish, season with yolk and butter. Enjoy your meal!

How to cook rice  with raisins

Highly delicious recipe  cooking rice with dried fruits, which will be especially enjoyed by little sweet-tooth kids. What is needed for this:

1. Rice - 300 grams

2. Raisin - 40 grams

3. Water - 800 ml (rice must be completely covered with water)

4. Butter - 1 tablespoon

5. Sugar and salt - to taste

Rinse the cereal with water and place in a saucepan. Add raisins and salt. Pour water, put on the fire and bring to a boil. After that, cover and make a quiet fire.

Boil for 15-20 minutes until boiling water boils. 5 minutes before the end of cooking add sugar and butter. Then, skeet and eat with pleasure. Enjoy your meal!

Rice is used as a side dish to the main dish or in combination with other products, for example, for the preparation of cabbage rolls, pilaf, porridge. How to cook rice and the main thing is delicious, not all housewives know. What to do to not get the slime and crumpled mass will tell our readers.

Parboiled rice is invented to facilitate the preparation of crumbly dishes. Cereals, already treated with steam, are less boiled away during heat treatment. Do not use steamed grain for cooking milk porridge.

Boil steamed grains need the following steps:

1. Wash rice with boiled water 2–3 times. All damaged or rotted kernels will float to the top.
2. Pour water on 5-7 cm.
3. Add salt (½ tsp per 1 liter), pepper and cook for 20 minutes under the lid closed.

Long grain rice

Long grain rice, suitable for cooking pilaf, salads, as a side dish. Unlike steamed, the grain is more fragile and it is important not to digest it.

Cooking should be according to the scheme:

1. Rinse in 2–3 flowing waters.
2. Pour 2-3 phalanxes with water.
3. Add 2–3 spoons of vegetable oil, salt, and spices to the pan.
4. Boil for 15–20 minutes, but stir once at the very end of cooking. Pan all the time to keep closed.

Round grain rice

Round grain rice is suitable for making milk porridge. As a side dish is rarely used.

Cook porridge as follows:

1. Wash rice 1–2 times in running water.
2. Pour milk into a glass of rice / 2 milk.
3. Add butter, sugar, salt.
4. Simmer for 25-30 minutes.

After readiness to close the lid, wrap under a fur coat and let stand for another 30 minutes.

How to cook crisp rice

  which is suitable for mono fasting or as a side dish for protein foods. 100 grams of rice is only 130 calories. It depends on the type of calorie rice. So, brown after cooking has 147 Kcal, white round grain - 137 Kcal, steamed - 120 Kcal.

You can cook crumbly rice using a few secrets:

1. Do not digest the cereal, otherwise it will stick together.
2. Not steamed rice can not interfere all the time, it will damage the integrity of the grain and make porridge.
3. Before cooking, add a little vegetable or olive oil to the water, it will prevent the grains from sticking together during cooking.
4. Water at the end of cooking must be drained, wash the rice with running water.
5. You need to turn down the fire immediately after boiling water in a saucepan, otherwise the rice will be digested.
6. After cooking, rice should be flavored with a spoon of olive or vegetable oil.
7. The ratio of water and cereal ⅓, a smaller amount will boil away, and the cereal will not add, stick together.
8. If the rice is salty, you can wash it with more water and fill with oil. The dish will be fixed.
9. It is possible to store ready rice in the refrigerator no more than 48 hours, and at room temperature  - no more than 12 hours.

Sushi Rice

Rice for sushi take a special brand. How to cook rice for sushi depends on personal preferences, its type. Have their own subtleties.