Use this recipe for: short, medium and long grain white rice. How to cook rice separate directions for: jasmine, basmati and brown rice.
The longer the grain, the less sticky it is. Indian food isn’t eaten with chopsticks! Sushi rice is a type of short grain rice, and it has to be sticky in order for sushi rolls to stay together. You can’t make sushi rolls with basmati rice! The water needs to be increased to 2 cups to cook rice in microwave. You don’t need to rinse rice to have fluffy rice if you use the right cooking method and rice to water ratio! More on the to-rinse-or-not-to-rinse debate below.
Fluff with a rice paddle, rubber spatula or fork, marvel at perfect fluffy rice! See recipe video for a good close up! All the rice cooks evenly, the grains are tender but not mushy, and the surface of the grains are not mushy and gummy. There is no need to rinse rice if you use my rice cooking method! How to cook rice in the oven Useful for hands off, big batch rice cooking. Fluff with fork, marvel at perfectly cooked fluffy oven baked rice.
This is my next preferred method to cook rice. It’s not as perfect as rice cooked on the stove because some of the rice on the edges gets a wee bit crispy. But it is still very very good and the small compromise is worth the convince of this entirely hands-off method of cooking rice. Some people think rice should not be sticky at ALL, but that’s not right!
5 billion Asians would struggle to eat rice with chopsticks! How to cook rice in the microwave Useful emergency method! I use this when I’m scrambling for rice props in photos! Most microwaves heat things from the outside in. Using boiling water helps rice cook more evenly. Round container cooks more evenly than square or rectangle, but not critical.