Just a quick post on cooking rice in a microwave.
White Rice
Most microwaves today have a cooking rice option and if you haven’t yet tried it, I suggest you do. It’s quick and easy and makes excellent fluffy rice. Here are a few tips to help you:-
- Some rice needs rinsing in cold water before you cook it, for example Basmati, so make sure you do that first
- All microwaves are different, but generally you will add twice as much boiling water as rice – for example, one cup of rice – two cups of boiling water
- Put rice and boiling water in microwave container (no lid)
- Press the Cooking Rice button on your microwave
- Most microwaves will stop part way through cooking and prompt you to stir the rice
- IMPORTANT TIP – this is where I drain the rice and add fresh boiling water before putting it back into the microwave – the reason I do this is because it gets rid of a lot of the sticky stuff that makes rice sticky
- Return to the microwave and continue cooking until the microwave ‘pings’ to tell you it’s ready
- Drain off any excess liquid, stand for a minute or two, fluff up and serve
- TIP – if you are cooking brown rice, add on around 10 minutes of extra cooking time – you may need to add more boiling water
- Rice freezes well, so don’t worry if you make too much
Brown Rice
For brown rice, follow instructions above with these additional steps:-
- At point 6 above, add more boiling water than you tipped out – about twice as much.
- At point 7 above, return to the microwave and increase the cooking time by ten minutes, then continue cooking until the microwave ‘pings’ to tell you it’s ready.
Thanks for reading my Cooking Rice post. Click on one of the following Dinner in Ten Minutes recipes that go well with rice:-
