Name: Plain Boiled Rice
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1½–2 teasp. salt; 14 ozs (400 g/2 cups) good-quality long-grain rice, e.g. Basmati; a few little knobs of butter (optional); a large pot of cold water

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious 2

By Darina Allen

Published 1990

About

I find this way of cooking rice in what we call ‘unlimited water’ to be very satisfactory for plain boiled rice, even, dare I say, foolproof. The grains stay separate and it will keep happily covered in the oven for up to half an hour.

Ingredients

14 ozs (400 g/2 cups) good-quality long-grain rice, e.g. Basmati

Main course
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Bring a large saucepan of water to a fast boil, add salt, sprinkle in the rice and stir at once to make sure the grains don’t stick. Boil rapidly, uncovered. After 4 or 5 minutes (depending on the type of rice) test by biting a few grains between your teeth—it should still have a slightly resistant core. If it overcooks at this stage the grains will stick together later.

Strain well thr

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