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Cooking rice is quite a simple task. But, understanding the various types of rice, the intricacies involved and giving a shot would enormously help you in making fluffy, non-sticky and fantastic rice for everyone at home. Here is a compilation that can help you relentlessly to cook rice fantastically with ease.

Some Pre-Requisites To Cook Rice

The prerequisites constitute a solid base (like in a rice cooker), the correct amount of water for the type of rice you use, a lid that snaps firmly to the cooking container and a post-cooking resting period of around 10-20 minutes.

Types of Rice

Brown Rice: Hull and the chaff removal of the rice grown in the paddy field are incomplete in this type of rice. Being the best form of natural rice, this type is the least processed variant of rice.

White Rice: The chaff and hull are completely removed and the rice is polished in this variant.  Sometimes, this variant is enriched with riboflavin, iron and niacin contents too.

Parboiled rice: This variant of rice is nutritious since it is subjected to steam and pressure before it undergoes milling procedure which in turn helps in the movement of the vitamins and nutrients from the outer surfaces to the marrow of the grain. It takes time to cook but testifies to contain high nutritional value than other variants of rice.

Pre cooked Rice: This variant undergoes a patented cooking procedure after which it is rinsed and dried. It takes a very short time to cook this variant since a bit of hydration suffices.

Learn to Cook Rice: The Step by Step Procedure

Rinse the rice thoroughly. Ensure that you do not rinse the rice if it is enriched since that would cause the loss of these precious nutrients. Rinsing is done in case of rice variants that had used talc for polishing. It is also done with the main aim of removing starch from rice so as to make it non-sticky.

Then add water. 1-1/2 or 1-3/4 is the ratio of rice and water that results in the fluffy and non-sticky cooked rice. Brown rice and parboiled rice might need relatively large amounts of water. Keep the rice soaked in water for 10 minutes only if it is old, else, don’t resort to this procedure of soaking rice in water before cooking.

Transfer the contents to the rice cooker and close the contents with a lid and ensure that the lid fits snug to the base. Witch the rice cooker to the ‘cook’ mode. The grains of rice absorb water gradually and once the rice become devoid of water content, the steam within helps in getting it through. Once the rice gets cooked, automatically, the cooker gets into the 'warm' mode after which you will have to rest it undisturbed for around15 minutes. This in turn would help in the equal distribution of the moisture content throughout the cooked contents.

Once the rice is well cooked and the steam gets released, unplug the rice cooker from the electric socket and enjoy having fluffy, non-sticky and fantastic tasting rice!

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