21 Rice Recipes To Make From Your Pantry (2024)

FAQs

What can I add to rice when there's nothing? ›

The answer: high heat, expert tosses, and something known as 'wok hei. ' As J. Kenji López-Alt writes for Serious Eats, expert cooking with a wok (and the gas range it requires) is one of the main reasons that fried rice from a Chinese restaurant tastes so much better than what you can make at home.

Use Fresh Herbs and Chicken Stock

“My favorite way of cooking white rice is adding minced garlic and small diced onions to the pot with fresh thyme and butter,” says Jamaican chef Troy Tingling, chef and owner of Soulfly Chicken in Miami.

Whatever you do, don't mix the rice while it's cooking — this will lead to gummy rice. Let the rice rest covered. Turn off the heat and let the rice sit, covered, for 10 minutes. During this time, the rice will steam for extra fluffy results.

If you're unsure about using your hands and fingers, Cho suggests using a rice to water ratio of 1 to 1.2. Finally, Cho uses the “10-5-5 rule.” That means bringing the rice to medium-high heat for 10 minutes, followed by low heat for 5 minutes, then he turns the heat off to let the rice steam for 5 minutes.

To get the best flavour, the vinegar needs to be folded into the rice while it is still warm. As you are mixing the rice and vinegar together, use a fan to cool the rice and remove the moisture.

For tender grains of rice that easily separate, such as in a pilaf, use 2 cups of water for every 1 cup of rice. You can also use another liquid like stock in this 2:1 ratio. For slightly chewier, fluffy white rice, use 1 1/2 cups of water for every cup of rice, or a 1.5:1 ratio.

What to eat when you just have rice? ›

Submerging a mobile phone or other mobile device which has suffered from water damage into rice has not been shown to be effective in repairing them. Submerging these devices into a desiccant may or may not be more effective than leaving them to dry in open air.

Many people consider white rice an “empty” or “bad” carb since it loses nutrients when the bran and germ are removed. However, white rice is typically enriched with added nutrients such as iron and B vitamins. So while brown rice does have more nutrients than white rice, white rice is still considered nutritious.