Instructions to cook delicious, flexible rice in the Vietnamese way

As we all know, in Eastern countries such as Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan,... rice is the main staple food just like wheat of Westerners. In recent times, rice is also gradually becoming the main dish of Westerners' meals, but not all families know how to cook rice deliciously. Vietnam is known as the world's largest rice producer and also home to some of the best rice in the world, so their rice processing skills also make the rice very tasty and pliable. The Vietnamese cooking method is extremely simple, but the rice grains prepared in that way are extremely delicious, flexible and attractive. In today's article, AnCu Life will guide you how to process rice the Vietnamese way. It's really very simple, nothing fancy. Let's go!

First of all we need to prepare the ingredients. The ingredients for cooking rice are only rice and water. The tool is a rice cooker. Really simple isn't it!

Cooking rice consists of 5 steps: Measure the rice, wash the rice, measure the water, cook the rice and brew the rice.

Step 1: Measure the rice

Most rice cookers come with a rice measuring cup included so you can measure the rice accurately for one cooking, each cup is about 150g of rice equivalent to 2 bowls of rice, if you don't have one you can find or use a separate measuring cup. to measure.

Step 2: Wash the rice

Carefully read the instructions in the packaging, some special rice manufacturers recommend not to wash because in the rice ingredients there are some vitamins, iron ... washing rice will lose these minerals.

If there are no further notes, you need to rinse the rice with water, remove pesticides, herbicides, rice husk dust, to ensure safety and hygiene.

Step 3: Measure the water

The amount of cooking water depends on the type of rice and your preference. The basic cooking rule is to use a ratio of the number of bowls of rice = the number of bowls of water added 1/2 cup.

For example, you cook 1 bowl of rice to measure 1.5 bowls of water, similarly 2 bowls of rice will measure 2.5 bowls of water. Or you can also use the water level scale in the pot (if available).

An experience of Vietnamese people is that when you pour water into rice, the water level will be 1 knuckle of index finger higher than the rice level :) A really good experience, isn't it.

Step 4: Cook rice

Wipe the outside of the pot with a dry cloth, make sure the surface of the pot is dry, put the inner pot inside the pot body, gently rotate so that the bottom of the pot is in direct contact with the heating plate. Close the cover, plug in the power and turn on the switch.

Step 5: Incubate rice

After cooking, the pot switches to keep warm mode, at this time you can unplug and leave the lid unopened for 10-15 minutes, helping the rice surface dry, evenly cooked and the rice grains do not stick to the body. pot.

At the end of the cooking process, open the lid, stir the rice with a spatula or chopsticks and enjoy.

Actually, there are now many rice cookers that also help you cook rice much better, but the secret of measuring water into rice is the key to cooking good or bad rice.