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Steamed Rice recipe - Plain Rice

Cooking White Rice or Brown rice

Steamed rice is easy to cook. You need to just add the water proper measure. You can cook it using a pressure cooker or a rice cooker or you can also cook it in a pot on a stove.

I usually cook rice in the pressure cooker. That saves time and fuel as I can cook the lentils and the vegetables too using separators.

If you are using long grain basmati rice, you need 1 1/2 cups water for each cup of rice. For short grain rice, you will need about 2 cups of water for each cup of rice.

The quantity of water will depend on the variety of rice and also on how old rice is. New rice needs less water. Adding more water than necessary will make the rice mushi, too soft or like a paste. Adding too little will not cook the rice properly.

The rice is perfectly cooked when rice is cooked soft but each grain is separate.

How to cook steamed rice it in a pot

Ingredients for cooking rice

  • Rice - 1 cup
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Salt -1/4tsp(optional)

Preparation

  • Wash rice.
  • Keep aside for 10-15 minutes.

Cooking Rice

  1. Keep a big pot(about 2 litre size) with 2 cups of water to boil.
  2. When water starts boiling, add rice.
  3. Stir, reduce flame.
  4. Stir once in a while. Add salt. If you cover the pot, it may boil over so watch it. Or cover the pot in such a way that the steam can escape a little. It will take about 15 minutes to cook rice. Add a little water if necessary.
  5. When the rice is almost done, Cover it and switch the flame off.

Leave the rice covered for 5-10 minutes or till serving time. Serve it hot with any lentil curry, dal, vegetable curry.

You can use this rice to make Lemon rice, Tomato Rice , tamarind rice, Vegetable biryani rice, Fried rice etc.

Tips

  1. Remember to add the water according to the type of rice, how old the rice is and what you are planning to use it.
  2. For lemon rice, fried rice, tomato rice, tamarind rice the rice should not be very soft. If it is too soft will get mushi when you mix it with vegetables, lemon etc.
  3. Basmati rice needs less water. It also breaks easily.

Related Pages to visit:

Curry recipes - Curries from different regions of India.

Lentil recipes - Lentil Curries and other lentil recipes.

Bread recipes - Chapati, Poori, Paratha etc

Rice Recipes - Fried Rice, Lemon Rice, Khichadi etc




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