Adjusting an instant-rice recipe for regular rice
I'm trying a very simple beans-and-rice recipe, but I noticed it calls for instant brown rice, and I'm using regular.
The recipe has me cooking the rice within a quick sauce (tomato, black beans, seasoning), but I'm worried (albeit with no actual specific foundation) that the sauce might not work well under a much longer cooking time. Whereas stirring it in mid-cooking sounds like a Not Good Thing for rice.
Do I need to do anything special to make this substitution work?
Best Answer
Instant rice is just parboiled rice made to cook faster. Since brown rice takes a significantly longer time to cook than minute rice, you might try cooking your rice first until its 1/2 to 2/3 done, then transfer it to the sauce to finish cooking and absorb the flavor.
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Any white rice will likely make a fine substitute. If time is an issue, quick rice is also available. It's been partially cooked and dehydrated, so it takes a bit longer to cook than instant rice, but not the full cook time of regular rice.Is instant rice the same as regular rice?
So for example, brown rice is milled one less step than white rice, which preserves some of its nutritional value. But instant rice, on the other hand, has been processed like this: milled from a seed on the plant down to white rice, then fully cooked and then dehydrated.How do you make instant rice with regular rice?
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Answer 2
That "sauce" should work fine with a longer cooking time. I'd just go for it.
If you want to be careful, it should also be fine to cook the rice partially, with the seasonings and any liquid from the original recipe, and then stir in the rest for the remaining cooking.
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