What Water to Pour over Rice: A Culinary Life Hack

30.09.2024 21:56

To cook rice correctly, you need to rinse it several times, choose the right type of grain for a particular dish, and still there is no guarantee that it will turn out perfectly.

Chefs have many secrets that they use when cooking rice. One of them is the temperature of the water.

Expert of the online publication "BelNovosti" Yulia Arkhipova - a cook, fourth-category baker told what kind of water should be poured into rice when cooking.

Preparing a side dish from this group is accompanied by the risk of turning the rice into mush, or leaving the cereal half-cooked.

All this affects the appearance and taste of the finished dish.

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Culinary lifehack

Firstly, to make the rice crumbly, before putting the grain to cook, you need to lightly fry it in a frying pan.

Secondly, regardless of whether you fried the cereal before cooking or not, you need to pour hot water over it, not cold water.

By the way, this same life hack can be used not only when cooking rice.

The same is done with other grains. In particular, many cooks advise frying buckwheat in a dry frying pan before cooking.

Igor Zur Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor

Julia Arkhipova Expert: Julia ArkhipovaExpert / Belnovosti