Steamed Rice

Rice is the staple food for the Chinese and can be eaten with every dish in the book. Long-grain white rice—husked and polished—is what the Chinese like to eat every single day. It is as traditional to boil rice as it is to steam it but, whereas boiled rice has a tendency to stick together, steamed rice is firmer in texture and the grains are more separate. To steam rice, use the same volume of water as rice, for example 1