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Rice To Meet You

spamguy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:46:38 -0800

How do I make white rice for one person (me)? There are seemingly no recipes on the Internet for microwaving white rice in individual portions. Any experimentation on my end has resulted in failure. I either end up with rice soup or a solid disc of dry rice.

Bonus points for using olive oil instead of butter.

If you have any single-portion brown rice recipes, feel free to supply those too. Once I work through my white rice cache I'm going to switch to brown.

How can I learn to like brown rice?

lilboo — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:10:01 -0800

I have never liked the taste of brown rice, but I would like to try to develop a taste for it, since it is so good for you. Is there something that I can add to the rice to make it taste different (and possibly better?) Other suggestions for cooking or preparing the rice, besides the standard are appreciated.

How do you properly cook brown rice?

jpburns — Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:54:11 -0800

How in the heck do you properly cook brown rice? I'm an ace at white rice, but last night I attempted to make the brown variety, and failed miserably [more inside...]. Here's what the package advised:

Boil 2.5 cups of water with salt and butter (if desired). Add rice when it comes to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes or until water is absorbed.

Following these directions, the rice, while fairly cooked, was still swimming in water at the end of the 40 minutes. With white rice you can boil 2 cups of water to 1 cup of rice, put on low for 15 minutes (covered), and it's perfect every time.

Thanks for any tips...