I have failed at cooking rice sooo many times. My rice always turned out sticky, not to mention sticking like crazy to the bottom of the pot. I tried using a rice cooker for awhile, but it had a non-stick coating inside (ie toxic chemicals), and was big and bulky to store. When we switched to eating brown rice instead of white rice, that presented even more challenges. I'm happy to say that I have finally found an easy way to cook rice! I've been using this recipe for months now and it always turns out great.
Baked Brown Rice
1 1/12 cups brown rice
2 1/2 cups water - heat to boiling in a teapot
1 Tbs butter
1 tsp salt
Preheat oven to 375. In 8x8 casserole dish, add rice, salt, butter, and boiling water. Stir to dissolve butter and salt. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 1 hour. Fluff with a fork and serve. (recipe from Alton Brown) :)
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I'll have try this. Do you use short grain or long grain? I think one is more sticky. I bought a big bag of organic short grain from Costco. I like it way better then the long grain.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to try that!
ReplyDeleteWe always use brown rice and lately IDK what I am doing wrong... it's sticky... which normally wouldn't matter really but I was making veggie fried rice. I am going to try this soon in my fried rice recipe and see if it helps! Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteI WISH mine were sticky. It's often crunchy and burning to the pan. Rice is so hard to do perfectly. I'm definitely going to try this method! I've read also that if you soak your rice it makes it cook up better. Need to try that as well. Thanks so much much for the recipe!
ReplyDeleteJessica, mine is long grain brown rice, I'm not sure what the difference is.
ReplyDeleteI just tried making this and it turned out perfectly!!! I'm so happy :o) Thanks for sharing the recipe!
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