how can i make brown rice taste better?

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  • GoMizzou99
    GoMizzou99 Posts: 512 Member
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    Saute' some onions and peppers in a skillet (use Pam for low cal) - add rice rice to skillet, mix and serve.

    or

    Saute' some onions and peppers in a skillet (use Pam for low cal) - add some egg white and scramble with onions and peppers - add rice rice to skillet, mix and serve.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
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    There's nothing wrong with white rice. But brown rice is nutritionally superior. Here's a couple good reads on it.

    http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=128
    http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/the-difference-between-brown-rice-and-white-rice.html

    When all else fails, A-1 sauce covers the taste of just about anything. :smile:


    Brown rice is not "nutritionally superior".


    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9302338/
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2822877/

    It has more nutrients but I guess it's up in the air whether they're accessible or beneficial?

    I think a lot of people choose whole grains mostly for the added fiber and flavor. Though if you want to eat white rice and add fiber, drink a glass of Metamucil with it. Might be more gross than just learning to like brown rice.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
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    Saute celery, onion, garlic, mushrooms in a little butter or olive oil until they are soft. Add some dried sage or other herbs you like. Add desired amount of rice (white or brown), the right amount of broth, cover and simmer. Good stuff. If using a rice cooker, saute the veggies first, then dump them into the rice cooker with the rice and liquid and cook as usual.
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
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    Cook it in broth. I, however, like white rice.
  • Susay2942
    Susay2942 Posts: 211 Member
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    A little beef consume with some mushrooms or soy sauce if you want more tart of a taste. It may sound strange but chopped steamed carrots with a lemon squeezed over it!

    I have experimented with some rice. I really dont like the long grain wheats..it just never seems to soften enough for my pallet.

    Im now on a low residue diet rather than high fiber so I am going to have to start using white rice......I hope my trials will work with white as well!
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    There's nothing wrong with white rice. But brown rice is nutritionally superior. Here's a couple good reads on it.

    http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=128
    http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/the-difference-between-brown-rice-and-white-rice.html

    When all else fails, A-1 sauce covers the taste of just about anything. :smile:
    Sort of. On paper, brown rice is nutritionally superior, but in practice, most of the nutrition in brown rice is trapped inside the indigestible hull, so humans can't actually absorb any of it. Therefore, white rice is actually better nutritionally speaking, though brown rice has more fiber.
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
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    All I eat is brown rice, its soooo yummy! I add some olive oil and sea salt (or butter and table salt) and it tastes fine. I am looking into a recipe for cilantro lime rice like they have at Chipotle. If it is good I will put the recipe on the forums. (its just 2tbsp lime juice and 1/4 cup chopped cilantro.
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
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    put a lil parmesan in it
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
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    I, too, bought brown rice because it was supposedly nutritionally superior. But that didn't work out. So instead I bought a 1-2 cup rice cooker from Amazon to control my portions. Now I can measure 1/3 cup of dry rice, cook it and all the grains come out plump and not stuck to the cooker. Best purchase ever! :smile:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001ZPOLE?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 941 Member
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    White rice isn't bleached. It's polished to remove all the husk.
  • jardimgirl
    jardimgirl Posts: 522 Member
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    thanks everyone, i'll have to try these, but if all in all, ill continue with white rice once in a while :)
  • fat2strongbeth
    fat2strongbeth Posts: 735 Member
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    I cook all my rice, quinoa, couscous, etc in chicken or veggie broth. If you are cooking it in just water make sure you add salt and seasonings.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
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    Brown rice might still be a better option if weight loss (or cholesterol mgmt) is your goal. Though if you eat it only occasionally, it probably doesn't matter much.

    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/brown-rice-really-better-white-rice

    Same study, the actual abstract- http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/brown-rice-superior-white-rice-improving-physiological-markers-associated
  • GothicaAdore
    GothicaAdore Posts: 82 Member
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    Brown rice is amazing, White rice is amazing too. Really, now that I'm dieting, even foods I don't usually like taste good. Hunger is the best seasoning.
  • thatgorsuchkid
    thatgorsuchkid Posts: 23
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    You heard wrong, eat white rice, it's delicious

    It has been refined to the point of having no nutritional value, so that is false. Eat brown rice. I lost thirty pounds in five weeks just because I ate brown rice once a day and the fiber was off the charts and kept me so full.

    I like to add lite soy sauce to mine. Or fat free chicken gravy. i am obsessed with brown rice, just not plain brown rice.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
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    You heard wrong, eat white rice, it's delicious

    It has been refined to the point of having no nutritional value, so that is false. Eat brown rice. I lost thirty pounds in five weeks just because I ate brown rice once a day and the fiber was off the charts and kept me so full.

    I like to add lite soy sauce to mine. Or fat free chicken gravy. i am obsessed with brown rice, just not plain brown rice.

    Please see the studies I posted above. White rice has nutrients added back into it. Claiming it has "no nutritional value" is entirely false.
  • Tonnina
    Tonnina Posts: 979 Member
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    Butter makes everything better!
  • LKPMiller
    LKPMiller Posts: 6 Member
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    Try Minute Rice version. It's already partly cooked so you won't get such a lengthy exposure to the cooking smell! Make sure you put :smooched: a little salt and some fat (even half a teaspoon makes it better!!)
  • thatgorsuchkid
    thatgorsuchkid Posts: 23
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    You heard wrong, eat white rice, it's delicious

    It has been refined to the point of having no nutritional value, so that is false. Eat brown rice. I lost thirty pounds in five weeks just because I ate brown rice once a day and the fiber was off the charts and kept me so full.

    I like to add lite soy sauce to mine. Or fat free chicken gravy. i am obsessed with brown rice, just not plain brown rice.
  • lgumert
    lgumert Posts: 20
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    I don't like regular brown rice, but I love brown basmati rice; it has a totally different flavor. I also eat Japanese rice that has part of the hull removed so it has more fiber than white rice but tastes more like white rice.

    If you don't have a rice cooker, you can get the same texture (and more nutritional value because more digestible) by soaking the rice (in the water in which you will cook it; don't drain this water away) for at least a half hour. Then bring to a boil and cover. Then lower heat to a very low simmer for 30 minutes. Then raise the heat to high for a few seconds to evaporate any excess water. Then let it sit for 10 minutes before you raise the lid to fluff it.

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