How do I make brown rice taste good??

prozac5489

Brown rice does need a bit of a salt punch to help it out, IMO...but you can definitely use a lot less of it in the long run if you add the salt to the cooking water. For every 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice, I add 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the mix. If I am making it in my rice cooker, I just add the salt directly to the water. If I'm baking it, then I also add 2 teaspoons of unsalted butter or an oil to the mix (a touch of fat saves a lot of pan scrubbing!).

When you add the salt to the cooking water, the salt will get into each grain and perfectly season it. If you dump salt or soy sauce on after its cooked, you'll end up using tons of it and you'll have bites that are too salty and bites that are bland.

Unsalted brown rice has about 1 mg sodium per half cup. Brown rice with salt in the ratio I mentioned above has about 126 mg sodium per half cup. That may seem like a huge jump, but it's not that much sodium in the grand scheme. A half cup of canned beans has 280 mg. And just 54 grams of lunch meat has 650.

Lala_White

I have in the past, thrown the brown rice in the rice cooker, added the water (sometimes chicken broth), spices, AND the chicken breast and then steamed it all together. Doesn't taste too bad...


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Beezil

I love it with just butter on it, personally. But I just prefer the taste of brown rice to white. I also eat it with tuna and olive oil sometimes. Yum.

herblackwings39

I make my brown rice with low sodium chicken stock or veggie broth instead of water. I also throw in tomatoes, hot peppers, corn, and black beans occasionally for a fiesta kinda of dish.

Siege_Tank

Rice really isn't good for weight loss....if you can skip it, do.

what?

If it fits your macros.

now stop raining on my white rice parade!

Thena81

i cook mine in a fat free chicken broth along with water. add mc cormicks sea salt grinder with garlic n parsley and some sauteed onions n peppers