How To Cook Rice

By Jason Taingahue
There are several ways to cook rice, and we will be looking at various cooking techniques soon.

First of all, go to the supermarket and choose the rice that suits your needs, and that will vary from person to person, and from taste bud to taste bud as well.

Once you have selected the type of rice you want to cook, lets get into the kitchen and get started.

Ok lets go with the basics first when learning how to cook and rice, and that is the one that is the conventional cooking method, where we will just boil the rice first. To do this we need a pot, which we will fill with one and a half cups of water and 200grams of rice.

We will then bring the rice and the water to the boil, and then once we have done this when learning how to cook rice, we will then turn the heat down to low and cover the pot, and simmer it for 12-15 minutes. Once this has been done, you can then remove the pot from the heat, and let it stand for 5-10 minutes, as the rice is actually still cooking with the steam, even when it leaves the heat on the oven.

Another way to cook rice, is to cook the rice in the microwave oven, which in this case when learning how to cook rice, we will use a microwave bowl instead of a pot. But we will still use the same water to rice ratio as we did with the conventional oven method above. How ever as there are great variances between microwave ovens, refer to your microwave manual for instructions on the timing and heating of your rice.

Those were the conventional ways when learning how to cook rice, but there are other ways to cook rice, and the next way to learn how to cook rice is fried rice. There are two ways to cooked fried rice and we will learn both ways.

The first way to cook fried rice, is to use the conventional oven method up the top, and then use a bit of oil in a fry pan and fry the rice up.

The other way when learning how to cook fried rice, is to use the do it all in the fry pan method. First of all, put a little oil into a wok and then add the rice once the oil has heated up a bit. The next step is to cook the rice until it is golden brown, and then remove it from the pan. After that, add the vegetables into the wok, and only half cook them, and the same as the meat. Then you can add the rice in, and add in a simmer sauce and simmer for about 10-15 minutes. The simmer sauce will cook the rest of the food to its full potential, and then you can let it sit for a while. Then you will have a beautiful meal waiting for you to eat.

Well there go some very simple ways when learning how to cook rice. Do not forget to take note in be very careful around any oven, and make sure that there are no children about when cooking any food on there at all.

Especially when there is a high heat temperature involved.

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