Nick500

Basmati rice

Preparation time: 30 minutes, serves 5 - 6.
Ingredients

* 500g brown basmati rice
* 800ml water
* 3 tsp sea salt

Method

Rinse the rice and place it in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid. Add the water and salt, and bring to the boil (the salt raises the temperature). Put on the lid and turn down the heat to very low. Cook for 20 minutes or so, until all the water has been absorbed (this time will depend on your cooking equipment, so experimentation is necessary at first). Turn off the heat and allow the pan to stand for another 10 minutes, letting the rice finish cooking in its own steam.

My theory with rice is that it can never be overcooked; what tends to happen is that either there is still water left (in which case bring it back to the boil and then leave it to cook in its own steam), or the bottom layer becomes toasted, but this tastes good! If it is too sticky, cook for longer with the lid removed, so as to let out excess steam. So don't worry about overdoing it. Rice was designed to be easy to cook so that humans could evolve quicker ;-)

Serve hot or cold.

Nick