Making excellent rice might seem easy, but getting that light, tasty, and fragrant outcome needs more than just water and rice. Experienced chefs and hotels have become experts at cooking rice by using special techniques and ingredients that make this basic food even better. Let’s reveal these hidden tips so you can make delicious restaurant-style rice at home.
The Common Error: Just Using Water
When you cook rice with water, it is a simple way, but the rice can end up tasteless and not very flavorful. Hotels and restaurants make rice taste better, look better, and have a better texture by using different ingredients and cooking methods.
Tips for Making Delicious Rice
Here are the proven tips that hotels use to make their rice tasty and memorable:
Instead of using water, try using broth.
Using vegetable, chicken, or beef broth instead of water adds delicious flavors to the rice.
How to accomplish this:
Use the same quantity of broth as water indicated on the rice package.
Choose broth with less salt to reduce the amount of salt.
For more taste, think about using broth made at home.
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Enhances the flavor of the rice.
Enhance the main dish by combining flavors that either go well together or create an interesting contrast.
Cook the rice by sautéing it first.
Cooking rice grains in a small amount of fat before adding liquid is called toasting.
How to accomplish this:
Warm butter, olive oil, or coconut oil in a saucepan on medium heat.
Put the rice in and stir for 2-3 minutes until it looks a bit see-through and smells nutty.
Next, add your liquid (water or broth) and cook as you normally would.
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