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Full Belly Fundamentals: How to Cook Perfect, Fluffy Rice

  • Writer: delaney inman
    delaney inman
  • Mar 7, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Nov 18, 2024

This is my tried and true method for making fluffy, perfect rice every time. Making good rice is essential to being a home cook, and you do not need a rice cooker or any specific equipment to make it perfectly. We eat rice probably 5 times a week, whether it be cilantro lime rice for copycat chipotle bowls, garlic butter rice with salmon or chicken, or sushi rice for my salmon bowl recipe.


 


Ingredients/Equipment

  • Sauce pan with lid (mine is saucy from great jones)

  • Measuring Cup ( mine is the beyond measure 2-cup, also from great jones)

  • Rice

  • Water (double the amount of rice that you are cooking)

Rice

Water

1 cup

2 cups

1.5 cups

3 cups

Let’s FLUFF!


Step 1- Remove the starch, retain the fluff




It is essential that you rinse the rice before cooking it. Add rice to a strainer and run under cool water for 1-2 minutes, or until water is mostly clear. This removes the layer or starch from the rice and prevents it from becoming a gummy mess. WE MUST RETAIN THE FLUFF.


Step 2-Get that water hot



If you are making 1 cup of rice, bring 2 cups of rice to a roaring boil.


Step 3- Add rice to the water



Add rice to the boiling water. Reduce heat to low, reducing to a simmer. Put lid on the sauce pan. Let simmer for 20 minutes.


Step 4- Remove and FLUFF



Remove lid from the saucepan and turn off heat. Fluff rice with a fork, add ingredients that suit the other elements of your meal and enjoy.


 

Thank you for reading and fluffing with me!

If you end up using this information, be sure to post it on social media and tag @fullbellydelly, comment, and share!


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