Making brown rice more appetising

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What can I add to brown rice that is not spicy, which will make the rice more appetising?

(I've already got various ideas of meals I will be serving it with so it's just the rice I need to make more appetising).

I normally eat white rice but bought a bag of brown to try it and did not like it much. I don't want to throw it away but it's tempting to at the moment.

lily_the_pink

add wild rice or red rice - you may need to start cooking the wild rice first
add peas, sweetcorn, chopped beans
fry a bit of onion and garlic - then add rice, then add water

Or all 3 of the above

apprentice_tycoon

For your next bag I'd try Suma organic long grain brown rice, it's really nice and nutty.

applecharlotte

I didn't like brown rice when i first tried it, but like you i didn't want to waste the bag so persevered with it. By the end of the bag i'd fallen in love with it. Don't buy white rice at all anymore. But sorry - i can't offer any advice to liven it up - i just boil mine!

megsykins

Put a stock cube or few gravy granules in the water, adds lovely flavour. Also, remember it needs cooking for longer, the first few times I cooked it I cooked it for usual time and it was rather al dente!!
But now I buy nothing else

Ticklemouse

Try brown basmati rice too. That's a lovely flavour.

I think the best advice is to persevere with it. I love it, although I agree it can be an acquired taste. They say you hve to eat something 15 times to acquire the taste - I made myself eat peppers as it was limiting my culinary talents (:D) by not using them, and can confirm that after eating them a few times, I now like them.

Yoga_Girl

You could cook it with vegetable stock to give it a little more flavour, but otherwise just persevere as others have said. You could try eating it cold as a rice salad (with peppers, sweetcorn, mayo etc) and see if that tastes any better. Other than that just smother it in a good tasty sauce/stew. We eat both brown and white rice and I think I actually prefer the taste of brown rice now.

It does work to keep eating things until you aquire the taste as Ticklemouse said, I also did the same thing but with olives, kept eating little bits of them until I could stand the taste, now I love them and would happily eat a whole jar of them!

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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep with a bit longer then. I'm have chicken tikka tomorrow night (slow cooked all day) so that should disguise the rice a bit.

lily_the_pink

Just remembered another one that some friends in Latin America used to cook (not a traditional Latin American can recipe - they were health food enthusiasts ) - add chopped up carrot - the carrot should get quite mushy so you might need to pre cook. Sounds gross (especially if you dont like carrot) but the combination somehow works (actually I havent eaten this for years so might not be as good as I remember). Might have been some garlic thrown in for good measure too. (nb you dont need to chop the garlic for it to add flavour - just peel the cloves and throw in whole).

Brown rice is definately an aquired taste though - bit like red wine and garlic.

I know you said no spices but a bit of star anise livens it up too.

Sarahsaver

a bay leaf and maybe cook it in chicken stock or veg stock cube, or fry an onion at the beginning.
Plain yoghurt on top of rice is nice too;)

Lydia_2

I didnt like brown rice when I first tried it but for health reasons I've learned to live with it. If you perservere it might grow on you. I make it with things cooked in rich sauces to disguise the feeling of eating cardboard. It seems to work most of the time.