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How do you cook perfect rice?
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You fry the dry rice? What does this do? This is very interesting. I need to try this.
When you say you're dialing in to 15 minutes. You mean you're dialing it in so all the water is gone after the 10 minute wait?
All the water is gone after the 15 minutes. Then I take the pot out of the burner and leave it, covered, for another 10 minutes, just waiting.
And yeah, I fry the dry rice for a minute. I don't know why, I invented that and I think it tastes different!
Lightly frying the rice before cooking it is a quite common practice for Mexican rice, and it seems to help reduce the starch content to make the rice less sticky and keep the grains whole. Here's one link I found regarding this topic: https://chatelaine.com/food/pre-fried-rice/
Ya my mom always did that.
Interesting, thanks for the link! I'm from Brazil, and our culinary has a lot in common with Mexican cuisine... I wonder if I saw someone doing that, and that's where I picked it up from!