Lidls Parboiled rice

lynzpower

OK

I bought some of this week before last. pulled it out of the cupboard for dinner later, it doesnt have instructions in English on how to cook it

Anyone know

Im pretrty bad at rice cooking at the best of times, and I REALLY dont have any room for waste this month

Hope someone can help

cathy163

Lynz just got my box of it out of the cupboard and it has instructions on left hand side. You cook for 10 mins in boiling water if you want firm rice and longer if you wish it softer.

Box says USA Parboiled Rice and has Premium Long Grain - there are 8 packs. Just bought it last week after reading about it on here so haven't actually tried it.

lynzpower

Nah its not the same one
But you are right the instructions are on the box, just had another look

Sorry for being lazy! must try harder lol

tawnyowls

I always cook rice the way I was taught by a Chinese friend which ensures it doesn't burn, and it saves on fuel too. Put rice into pan, pour boiling water on top so there's at least three times the depth of water as there is of rice. Bring back to boil. Cover pan and switch off heat. Rice should be ready about 10 mins later.

Roz_V

oooh tawny thanks for that - I'm forever burning rice and have ruined several pans in the process!! will try this and see if it works (not saying it doesn't, just that I'm a master of burning rice!!!)

tawnyowls

So was I!

(meant to be short, pithy comment, but apparently not long enough for site, so have to lengthen it!)

Bargain_Rzl

Lynz, is it the one in the yellow box? If so, there should be instructions on the back in several different languages including English However, OTTOMH I think it's 5 parts boiling water to the amount of rice you want to cook, add the rice, stir once and cook for 12 mins. It's EXCELLENT rice.

Bargain_Rzl

Oooops, sorry, just saw your second post (blonde moment?):D

starlite_2

We never got rice right, until I started using our steamer.
I put the rice in a thin plastic tub, cover with water to just cover the rice and steam away
It comes out perfect!

Before this discovery we used to get rice from the takeaway whenever we made curry/chlli etc which was a huge waste of money!