Tips : Perfect steamed rice without using fancy Japanese rice cooker. Add oil, salt, vinegar in cold water. It depends on the type of rice. After several requests, it's time to go back to the basics and talk about how to cook the perfect rice without a rice cooker.
It is easy, efficient and capable for qualified steamed rice.
This post is to introduce how to make steamed rice without a rice cooker, using either a casting iron pot or non-stick pot on stove.
How to Make a Perfect Pot of Rice Without a Rice Cooker.
You can have Tips : Perfect steamed rice without using fancy Japanese rice cooker using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Tips : Perfect steamed rice without using fancy Japanese rice cooker
- Prepare 2 cups of rice.
- Prepare 2 cups of cold water.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of vinegar.
- It's 1 tablespoon of oil.
- You need 1 pinch of salt.
You don't need fancy equipment to make this staple. Start making perfect rice with this little guide I've put together, based on what experts have told me He says he does this because it's the steam that cooks the rice, not the boiling water. Hardware - a rice cooker a measuring cup. Software - short grain white rice water.
Tips : Perfect steamed rice without using fancy Japanese rice cooker step by step
- Rinse the rice until the water is clear. (Normally takes 3 times).
- Add oil, salt, vinegar in cold water. Normally the rice /water ratio is 1:1. It depends on the type of rice. White rice like sushi rice or jasmine rice are 1:1; brown rice, red rice or wild rice should be 1:2 (1 cup of rice with 2 cups of water).
- Boil the rice by strong heat with cover on. Keep stirring every 2.3 mins to prevent rice from sticking in the bottom. You could see the water gradually drain out and some air holes being generated.(Normally after 7-8 mins).
- Turn down the heat when you start seeing those air holes. Keep the cover on the whole time and watch the water boiling in the air holes. Turn the heat off when you stop seeing water coming out from the air holes..
- Keep the cover on and let it sit for 20 mins. The steam will heat up the center of the rice hence it’s important to keep the cover on the whole time during the cooking process. Mix the rice evenly after 20 mins. Voilà ❤️.
It's Japanese, which will become important in later steps, but basically it is a metal bowl that fits inside of a squat bread-maker-looking device, with a few buttons on the front. Do you use a rice cooker to make rice or do you cook rice the traditional way in a pot? Perfect, springy, glowy and delicious rice without a rice-cooker. The way I have been taught how to cook rice NOT using a rice cooker here in Japan is slightly different. I use either a plain metal pan or a "do-nabe" - a Japanese thick bottomed traditional pottery.