Black rice is quite an exotic product for Russian cuisine. And therefore, in most cases, the features and subtleties of its preparation by the hostesses have not been studied. Further, in the material, we will understand how and what can be prepared from black rice.
To begin, consider the important tips.
Useful cooking tips
As well as the usual white, black rice is cooked in an almost identical way.
The following list will help you choose a quality product and properly process it before use:
- When buying this cereal, pay attention to the composition. Quite often you can find a mixture of black and brown rice. This is not a bad indicator of the product, just dishes from it will be somewhat less useful, in terms of a set of useful components.
- Before you cook black rice, you must soak it in cool water during the night.
- Also keep in mind that when cooking, the dishes may stain, so consider their choice.
- To cook the soaked rice, boil water (1: 3) and pour the cereal there. Next, cook over low heat for 60 minutes. As soon as it is ready, put out the fire and leave for 15 minutes without stirring.
- How to cook black rice "Southern Night" or another brand? Add sesame, nuts, legumes or Japanese sauce to the finished dish.
- It is best to serve this grits as a side dish for meat, fish or vegetable dishes.
- On its basis, salads, snacks and even desserts are made.
Next, it is worthwhile to figure out how to properly prepare cereals in various ways.
Cooking on the stove
In fact, the recipe is quite simple. It looks like this:
- Pour the rice with cold salt water so that it is twice the amount of cereal.
- Next, wait until the contents boil. Then cover and set a small fire.
- Leave the cereal to cook for 40 minutes.
- Once the water has evaporated, remove the dishes from the stove and let cool for 25 minutes.
How to cook black rice "Southern Night" in a slow cooker?
This method also requires pre-processing of cereals. For this:
- as always soak the cereal at night;
- pour 2 tablespoons of olive oil into the capacity of the multicooker;
- load the cereal;
- sprinkle everything with salt and pour cold water;
- close the slow cooker and set the mode to "Porridge", it usually takes 40 minutes.
Now that we have considered ways to deliciously cook wild black rice, we can move on to recipes based on it.
Black rice porridge
The easiest recipe. It is performed as follows:
- soak the rice overnight, and rinse before use;
- load the cereal into a pot with salted cold water;
- bring the contents of the dishes to a boil;
- put a small fire right after and cover with a lid;
- cook porridge for 40 minutes, until completely absorbed;
- as soon as this happens, without removing the lid, remove the dishes to insist for 25 minutes;
- then just mix the resulting porridge.
This method also answers the question: "How to cook black rice for a side dish?".
Tuna salad
We will deal with the preparation. For this dish you will need:
- packaging of rice of the above brand;
- 150 grams of canned tuna;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 1 small onion;
- 100 grams of fresh cucumbers;
- 10 grams of arugula;
- 5 tablespoons of olive oil;
- a tablespoon of lemon juice;
- a tablespoon of sweet mustard;
- salt and pepper.
Recipe
Now let's figure out how to cook black rice "Southern Night". Start with the cereal itself:
- It is better to soak the rice overnight, and before use, rinse in cold water with salt and put to cook for 60 minutes.
- Hard boiled eggs. Once cooked, cool and cut into small cubes.
- Put the tuna in a cup and mash it properly with a fork.
- Divide the onion into half rings.
- Cucumbers also cut into small sized cubes.
- Before you cook black rice, you need to make the right dressing. For this, olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, salt and spices are mixed in a separate bowl. Mix.
- Once rice is cooked, rinse thoroughly.
- Put a handful of arugula on a plate, place rice, tuna, vegetables and eggs on top. Salt everything and mix gently so as not to crumble.
Shrimp Arancini and Mozzarella
Let's look at another interesting way of how to cook black rice deliciously. For him you will need:
- 300 grams of the specified cereal;
- onion head;
- 2 tablespoons of corn starch;
- 3 tablespoons of water;
- clove of garlic;
- 100 grams of mozzarella cheese, preferably in the form of balls;
- 50 grams of sesame;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
Cooking method
Always before you cook something from black rice, it must be soaked overnight. After that:
- Rinse the cereal, pour into a pan with cold water. Boil and simmer over low heat.
- Remove the carapace from the shrimp, remove the gut and rinse. Once peeled, cut out into very small pieces.
- In a pan, heat a spoonful of olive oil, crush the garlic and put in the seafood. Fry for 5 minutes.
- Chop the onion finely.
- In a pan, heat another spoonful of oil and fry the vegetable.
- Once the rice is cooked, let it cool slightly.
- Dilute the starch in water and add to the cereal. Once it has cooled, mix it with the onion.
- Beat the egg in a separate bowl.
- Sprinkle sesame evenly on a plate.
- Cover the baking tray with special paper.
- Next, take a small handful of cereal and make it look like a bowl. Inside, fold the seafood and a ball of mozzarella. Be careful not to get a slide.
- Using a second handful of rice, cover the filling and carefully shape the product into a ball.
- Dip the billet in an egg and roll in sesame and lay on a baking sheet.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and cook for 20 minutes. Then serve immediately.
Black Rice Chicken Soup
Let us consider an example of a serious dish from this cereal. To prepare it you need:
- 100 grams of black rice;
- 120 grams of carrots;
- 3 small tomatoes;
- 2 bell peppers;
- 150 grams of chicken;
- 600 grams of water;
- 30 grams of butter;
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce;
- a tablespoon of sesame;
- eggs (half a boiled egg per serving of soup);
- green onions.
Cooking
Do not forget: before you cook black rice, you need to soak it in cold water for 8 hours. After that:
- Transfer the cereals to the pan and pour clean cold water. Bring the contents to a boil and then leave to cook until cooked.
- At this time, peel the carrots and pepper and cut them into strips.
- Hold the tomatoes for 2 minutes in boiling water, then transfer to a bowl of ice. Hold there for another 5 minutes and remove the peel. Then divide them into medium sized pieces.
- Divide the chicken into small slices and pour water with the carrots. All must be cooked on a medium-intensity fire for 3 minutes. Then strain the broth and add the tomatoes into it.
- Put the chicken and carrots previously selected in a pan with melted butter. Fry both ingredients to a small crust.
- Next, add pepper with soy sauce. Continue frying for another 2 minutes. Pour sesame seeds, stir well and turn off the heat.
- During this time, rice should have been cooked. Lay it out separately and let cool slightly. In the meantime, cook hard-boiled 2 eggs.
- After that, pour the broth into the plate, put the frying with rice, put half of the egg and finely chopped green onions on top.
Black Rice Chocolate Pancakes
Next, consider a rather unusual dessert. For him you will need:
- 50 grams of black rice;
- 20 grams of cocoa;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 15 grams of vegetable oil;
- 120 grams of milk;
- 200 grams of cottage cheese;
- 50 grams of cream;
- 50 grams of raisins;
- 60 grams of sugar.
Cooking
First you need to prepare the grits. All according to the standard scheme:
- Soak the rice overnight and rinse before use. Next, pour it into a pot of cold water, bring the contents to a boil and continue cooking on low heat for 60 minutes.
- Then pour in the egg and process everything with a blender until a uniform mass is obtained.
- Put in a separate bowl and add milk, butter, vanilla and cocoa to it. Now all the ingredients need to be mixed with a whisk. Follow the procedure until all lumps disappear.
- Warm the pan well and immediately set a small fire. It is necessary to bake pancakes of small size.
- After the whole batch is ready, put it in the refrigerator for several hours.
- During this time, mix the cottage cheese, raisins and cream in a separate bowl. Beat the ingredients with a blender until smooth.
- Next, just grease the received upper side of each pancake, stacking them on top of each other. As soon as the filling and pancakes are over - remove the resulting cake in the refrigerator or immediately serve it to the table.
Beetroot soup with black rice and squid
Consider the recipe for another rather unusual soup. It will require:
- 100 grams of black rice;
- 300 grams of beets;
- 1.5 liters of water;
- 300 grams of squid;
- 2 cucumbers;
- 4 quail eggs;
- a bunch of green onions;
- a small bunch of dill;
- vinegar or lemon juice;
- salt;
- freshly ground pepper;
- sour cream.
Cooking
Now we will analyze in detail the entire process of implementing this recipe. To start:
- Soak the rice overnight. Rinse in cold water before use and cook until cooked.
- Wash the beets with a brush, fill with water and leave to cook until cooked.
- At this time, peel the squid and cut them into strips. Then send to boil in salted water. How to cook - pour in a colander.
- Cucumbers are cut into small cubes.
- Onions and dill are finely chopped.
- Quail eggs are boiled hard boiled. As soon as they are ready - clean them and divide them into halves.
- Ready beets need to be cooled and peeled. After that, it is passed through a medium grater, filled with broth and lemon juice (or vinegar).
- Now pour the beetroot into the plate. Put quail eggs and two tablespoons of rice to it. The dish is decorated with squids, shredded greens and sour cream on top.
Black rice squid rolls
Speaking about rice dishes, one should not forget about almost traditional rolls. To prepare them you will need:
- 100 grams of black rice;
- half a tablespoon of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- 25 milliliters of rice vinegar;
- 150 grams of boiled squid;
- 2 sheets of nori.
Cooking
Now consider the implementation algorithm. First of all, you need to do the following:
- Black rice is soaked overnight. Before use, it is washed and poured with cold water and brought to a boil. Next, leave the product to cook on low heat for 60 minutes. Once it is cooked, cool it.
- Pour sugar into a pan, add vinegar and salt. Heat everything and mix until the sugar crystals completely dissolve.
- Then just put the finished rice in it and mix again.
- Boiled squid needs to be cut into thin straws.
- Divide both nori leaves into halves. For each half a centimeter layer lay out rice.
- Then even out and seal it with wet hands.
- From one of the edges of the sheet put a piece of squid.
- Next, carefully roll the workpiece into a tight roll.