Perfect Fluffy Brown Rice
Recipe: #8891
April 05, 2013
Categories: Side Dishes, Rice, Brown Rice, 5 Ingredients Or Less, 5-Minute Prep, Sunday Dinner, Diabetic Gluten-Free, Heart Healthy, Low Glycemic, No Eggs, Vegetarian, more
"Recipe by Saveur, except the bit of butter, which I added, for flavor. And the towel bit, which I learned cooking regular rice. Feel free to make yours either way. Their trick is cooking it more like pasta than the rice absorption method, and it works."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (764.4 g)
- Calories 222
- Total Fat - 7.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.9 g
- Cholesterol - 15.3 mg
- Sodium - 82.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 35.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.6 g
- Sugars - 0.4 g
- Protein - 3.7 g
- Calcium - 33.7 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Rinse rice in a sieve under cold running water.
Step 2
Bring salted water to a boil and add rice; boil without a lid for 30 minutes, then drain in a sieve.
Step 3
Place butter in the hot empty pan then add the rice back to it.
Step 4
Keeping away from heat or flame, place a clean dish towel over the pot then put a tight fitting lid over that and leave it alone for 15-20 minutes.
Step 5
Fluff with fork and serve.
Tips
No special items needed.