27/06/2023
RICE COOKING TIPS AND TRICKS
1. If your rice is burnt, place a slice of bread on it, the burnt smell will go off. Please, after adding the bread slice, place the pot lid on and leave to cook for about 5 minutes to absorb all that burnt smell.
2. To warm your leftover white rice, don't scatter it in the pot. Just add a little water and simmer on a very low heat until it is hot. Nobody will know you just warm it.
3. If your rice is burnt, but not soft for consumption, reduce the heat to low heat, then cover your rice with aluminum foil paper or nylon and then cover the pot tightly and cook for sometime, it will get soft.
4. The three important things to look for while cooking your rice are: colour, flavour, and texture.
5. Never use your kitchen spoon to turn your Jollof rice; you can even divide the rice into 2 parts, but rather use your wooden spoon.
6. You can use salt to parboil your rice, in order to remove the starch from the rice quick.
7. Make sure you parboil your rice for 5 to 10 minutes, before rinsing it with clean water.
8. Whenever, you are cooking any of the foodstuff like rice, always boil the water, before adding the rice.
9. Adding few drops of lemon juice in the water, before boiling the rice, helps to make rice whiter.
10. Adding teaspoon of vegetable oil in the water before boiling the rice, helps to separate each grain after cooking.
11. Don't throw away the rice water after parboiling. You can use it to water your home plants for nutrients.
12. Put few leaves of mint or bay leaves in the container/bag of rice, helps to keep insects at bay.
13. Adding butter or vegetable oil to your boiling rice, helps to give it a nice texture.
14. You can boil rice with much water, drain the excess water when the rice is cooked, helps to have free non sticky grains.
15. Adding seasoning cube and salt to your boiling rice, can make you enjoy it without stew or sauce.
16. You can cook your rice in the oven, which helps to give it a non sticky grains.
17. Once you have lot of water in your rice, you can use a clean towel or paper towel to drain out the excess water from it.
18. How to use turmeric to cook fried rice. Peel the skin and pound it very well to smooth, then add small water so you can filter it and get the water. Then add it to the rice as you cook it.
19. If you are boiling your rice and it is too soft due to too much water, just put a slice of bread on it and it will absorb the water and normalize the rice.
20. Washing your rice thoroughly with salt, before parboiling it, helps to remove the starch from the rice
