Any housewife in her life at least once cooked rice porridge. And of course, each cooks it in its own way.
Is there a universal recipe for rice porridge? How to cook rice porridge?
Let's figure it out together. Of course, the first and most important thing that should be included in the rice porridge recipe is naturally rice. Modern supermarkets offer customers a huge selection of rice. It must be remembered that the right rice is perhaps the most important part in making porridge.
What kind of rice is needed? There is the so-called "sweet rice", which is very popular in Thailand. Such rice is not very suitable for making porridge, since it needs to be cooked for at least six hours. Perhaps not everyone agrees to stand at the stove for so long that preparing breakfast.
Uzbek rice Dastar-saryk can be included in the recipe for rice porridge, but such porridge will be very expensive, because this rice is tasty, but finding it on the counter of an ordinary store will be quite problematic. The high price and rarity of such rice is due to the fact that this rice is "kept" before threshing for several years, from which it acquires an amber color.
You can try to cook even more “expensive” porridge from black Tibetan rice. Once this rice was served only to the imperial table and was not accessible to ordinary people. This rice is harvested by hand in Tibet, in impassable forests.
Brown rice is more affordable. Such rice is not polished, this allows you to save in it extremely useful enzymes for the body. Such rice is poorly digested, so it is not suitable for porridge.
Rice porridge recipe can include round Arborio rice. This rice boils well and porridge becomes very tender and just melts in your mouth.
In fact, there are a lot of types of rice, and which one is right for your rice porridge recipe is up to you.
In general, rice is a universal product that can be used both as a side dish and as an independent dish. It has a lot of useful properties. Properly cooked rice helps to improve digestion, helps to lose weight, is a source of fiber and trace elements necessary for the body, and of course has a special taste.
Perhaps it’s time to return directly to the rice porridge recipe. First of all, you need to calculate the amount of rice that you will cook. It must be remembered that rice is a very high-calorie product, so one serving should be no more than seven to eight tablespoons in volume.
For breakfast, you can cook rice porridge with butter. To do this, pour four to five glasses of cold water into the pan, add half a spoonful of salt. When the water in the pan boils, you need to pour two glasses of washed rice into the pan and cook it, stirring constantly, over low heat. When the rice is boiled and all the water boils, you need to remove the pan from the stove and add oil to the porridge. To make the dish tender, rice must be left in the pan for twenty to thirty minutes.
If you want to surprise your loved ones with an original recipe, then you will surely like porridge with cheese and tomato sauce. To cook this dish you need to cook friable porridge, drain excess water through a sieve and fry rice in a pan until it is browned. Then the resulting golden rice needs to be poured with a hot tomato sauce. The resulting mass should be "darkened" in a closed pan for several minutes. When put the resulting dish on plates, be sure to sprinkle everything with grated cheese. When the cheese is melted, the dish can be served. To prepare one serving of such an original porridge, you will need one glass of round rice, half a glass of tomato sauce and thirty grams of grated cheese.
Rice porridge is China's favorite food. It contains many nutrients necessary for the body. Now, you know how to cook rice porridge and how to cook rice milk porridge.