How to Cook Rice

how to cook rice

This is Bap, which means cooked rice in Korean. It is the most important part of Korean food because eating Korean means eating Bap with one more dish. For people who find hard to cook rice let me explain here how to cook rice.


1. Put rice as much as you want in a deep bowl (about 1/2cup per person) and wash the rice under the cold water until you get clean water running.

2. Pour in water. Measure the water regarding the amount of the rice in volume. Two times for white rice/three times for the brown rice). Then stand it at least 15minutes to soften the rice. Bring to boil with the lid on.

3. Once it boils lower the heat to medium and boil it with the lid open until all the water disappears(It will take about 5 minutes). Only white rice needs this step so for the brown rice go to the next step.

4. Close the lid and lower the heat to low and simmer until you get the best tenderness to your taste( about 5 minutes for white rice 20 minutes for the brown rice). Drain the remaining water for the brown rice.

5. Remove the pot from the heat. Leave the cooked rice for 5 minutes to make it softer with the lid on.

6. Trnasfer the cooked rice to another container(not plastic, though) and fluff it gently with a big fork otherwise all the rice get stuck together.

Tips

- I use medium grain rice in N.Z but I think medium grain rice is called short grain rice in U.S.
- If you want you can add other grains such as black beans, kidney beans, barley, etc, and wash them together with rice and soak them in the cold water more than 30 minutes. You'd better to try the other grains with a handful of amount then increase as you feel confident to cook them. Some hard grains such as red beans need to be cooked before cooking with rice.
- Keep the cooked rice in the fridge for use of within a week and in the freezer for later than a week then warm it in the microwave(for about two minutes) just before eating.