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Why does easy cook rice taste rubbish?
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I was taught to cook rice in boiling salted water - rice without salt is tasteless. and I ALWAYS get complimented on my rice. I just use loads of water, a little salt, and cook it for ten minutes then leave it with the lid on for five minutes - drain and serve.0
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No! Delicious!I personally love easy cook rice, it is so much better than me making my own, no more burnt saucepans and rice that is either burnt or hard:rotfl:Raven. :grinheart:grinheart:grinheart0
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No! Delicious!I rinse with boiling water before cooking to remove the dustiness, then add a little salt.
Pasta and rice always have to be cooked with salt in the water.
A quarter of a stock cube crumbled into the cooking water also makes it savoury, but you lose the fluffy whiteness.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
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try cooking the microwave rice in a pan of lightly salted water - I promise you will taste the difference. they still only take two minutes once put into boiling water!
OH! Open the packet and put the rice in the water!0 -
No! Delicious!Eww...salt in rice and pasta??0
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If I ever cooked pasta I would always put salt in the pan, not so much rice.0
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No! Delicious!I don't mind the easy cook stuff, I stocked up on it last time it was half price.
If cooking properly though... measure one glass of rice and rinse under the tap. Put a small amount of oil in pan and stir rice in it until it goes opaque then add one and a two thirds glasses of water and bring to boil.
When it boils turn it down and cook with the lid on until the rice starts getting little pits/indents in the surface of the top layer (your lid needs to be glass btw!) Take it off the heat, take the lid off, cover with a couple of sheets of newspaper and wedge the lid back on and leave for a few minutes for the paper to absorb the moisture.Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
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Yes! Rubbish!I use mostly basmati rice, two cups water per cup of rice in a heavy bottomed pan, bring to the boil, turn off the heat and let it sit there for 10 -12 minutes.
Perfect fluffy, dry, non-sticky rice every time. No faff, no mess, just lovely rice. What could be easier than that?I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
-Mike Primavera.0
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