Forgot to add salt to rice before cooking. How can I add salt after cooking to fix that?

I cooked jasmine long grain rice - but forgot to add salt before cooking.

It is a small amount, about 250 ml dry rice.*

When the 20 min where over, I noticed I had forgotten the salt.

Adding salt by just scattering some crystalline salt on it gives a very irregular result.

I understand that salt is not needed for the cooking process itself - it is to be added for flavor.

How can I add an adequate amount of salt to cooked rice?

I think it is good enough to add salt to the surface of the cooked grains, and not necessarily to all grains. I would tolerate altered texture of the rice.

* In case the preparation details are relevant: I washed it, and added about 1.5 times water by volume. Heated to boiling, then heated minimally for 20 min covered.
(I fully expect that this method of preparation is unacceptable of other reasons than missing salt. This is outside the scope of this question.)

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Best Answer

Seems there is no need to cook rice with salt, at least in my country or my friends who love the culinary.
But if you really need some salty flavor in your rice, maybe you could:

Turn your rice into fried rice, seasoning in the end.
Make some yummy sauces and add onto your rice.
Dissolve salt in water to become a salty solution, spray it on your rice and reheat again.

Hope this would let your rice more flavored :P

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Quick Answer about "Forgot to add salt to rice before cooking. How can I add salt after cooking to fix that?"

Turn your rice into fried rice, seasoning in the end.

Make some yummy sauces and add onto your rice.

Dissolve salt in water to become a salty solution, spray it on your rice and reheat again.

Can you add salt after cooking?

You need to season the rice, so YES you need to add salt to the water when cooking rice.

Do you add salt to rice before or after cooking?

How to fix bland rice

Toss some butter and salt into the pot with your rice and water.

Replace the water with more flavorful liquids such as broth or coconut milk, like in this Shrimp with Coconut Rice recipe.

For a nutty taste, lightly toast the rice in the pot before adding the cooking liquid.

How do you fix flavorless rice?

When salting for seasoning only If you're adding salt solely for seasoning and not for any of the reasons mentioned above, the best time to do it is at the end of cooking. That way, the salt crystals hit your palate directly, and you get the greatest flavor impact with the least amount of salt.

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