How to cook rice
Serves 1. Scale accordingly.
- Buy some rice. Basmati rice.
- No, that stuff won't do, it has to be basmati.
- Get about half a builder's mug (80g) full of it and put it in a seive.
- Wash that shit.
- Keep washing it.
- More washing.
- That should do it.
- Drain off the excess water.
- Put 3/4 of the same mug's worth of cold water (155g) in an saucepan that you have a reasonably tight-fitting lid for.
- Put the rice in the water.
- Add some salt. Couple of pinches. About 1/8 tsp.
- Put that watery rice on a highish heat. Maybe a medium heat, something like that. 9 out of 14 on my induction.
- Wrap a teatowel round the pan lid. Tie it up at the top to stop it turning into a crazy rice towel inferno, but not too tight.
- When the water has boiled down to the top of the rice, put the heat down as low as it'll go, and put the lid on. 2 out of 14 on mine.
- Leave it alone. Do not remove the lid.
- Seriously, leave that fucking lid on.
- 15 minutes after you turned the heat down, turn the heat off.
- After 10 minutes, it's good to go.
- Fluff with a fork, serve.