Perfect Parboiled Rice – Cooking rice is easy, all you need is three ingredients but at times, you overcook the rice or under cook it, make it salty or use less salt. Today I am sharing my way of cooking the perfect parboiled rice.
Parboiled rice is a forgiving rice, you can not ruin the rice as quickly as you can with regular rice. If you over boil it, unlike regular rice it will not turn mushy so quick.
If you under cook it, all you have to do is add hot water and let cook some more and it won’t stick together.
How to Make Parboiled Rice
Long grain basmati rice is the rice I love to use in cooking, but after trying the parboiled basmati rice, it became my favorite.
As a food blogger, parboiled rice if cooked properly will look great in pictures and that’s another reason why I prefer using parboiled rice.
Parboiled rice has more nutrients than normal basmati rice.
The process of making perfect parboiled rice is almost the same as cooking the usual basmati rice but there are fewer chances of messing it up, in a way it is a forgiving rice.
Easy Perfect Parboiled Rice Recipe
In this recipe (and it is an easy parboiled rice recipe), I will teach you how to make Basmati long grain parboiled rice.
The amount of salt is measured to be perfect so is the water and the timing, you will enjoy cooking parboiled rice after this post.
I am using boil and drain method in this recipe, it is faster and more convenient.
Hopefully in the near future, I will be sharing other methods of making different types of rice.
Parboiled rice tastes good in recipes like Indian Biryani, Mexican Rice and chicken, even Nigerian Jollof Rice.
If you like to add flavors to your white rice then these two recipes are try worthy:
Coconut Milk Rice
Coconut Water Rice
This is how you make parboiled rice!
Perfect Parboiled Rice
Print RateIngredients
- 1 cup uncooked Basmati parboiled long grain rice
- 1 leveled tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 7 ½ cup water
Instructions
- Wash and rinse the rice until the water is almost clear.
- Soak rice in lukewarm water for at least 20 minutes.
- In a pan, boil the water, add salt and olive oil.
- When the water comes to a rolling boil, add the rice, let it come to a boil again.
- Cook the rice on medium-high heat for 14 minutes.
- Drain the rice. Return the rice to the pan and cover. Keep the rice covered for at least 15 minutes before serving.
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9 Comments
Farida
29/05/2016 at 7:12 amI never tried this way, this is huge amount of water per cup, will try it next time!
munatycooking
29/05/2016 at 10:00 pmHi Farida,
This is a boil and drain method, it requires more water so the rice doesn’t get starchy and stick together, also one cup of par-boiled rice when cooked become much bigger and longer than normal rice. believe me, this much water is the right amount. Please let me know your feedback whenever you try it 🙂
Chris Scheuer
30/05/2016 at 12:16 pmYour rice comes out just beautiful! I can see why you like to use this method, especially for photoshoots!
munatycooking
01/06/2016 at 10:42 amThanks Chris 🙂
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21/06/2016 at 8:08 pmThe rice came out just beautiful! It’s perfect white and perfectly cooked!
munatycooking
22/06/2016 at 9:47 amThanks Nagi, you are so sweet 🙂
Favour adelaiye
08/03/2017 at 12:44 amWow it looking perfect. I will try it when next i cook my rice
Spyros
19/05/2017 at 4:41 pmThe rice came out awesome, cooked to perfection. Thanks for the recipe, I’ll definitely be cooking parboiled this way from now on. 🙂
Just one -rather theoretical- question. Why soak the rice? It didn’t seem to have any noticeable effect on volume, so I guess the water didn’t actually penetrate the rice.
munatycooking
23/05/2017 at 7:28 pmThe soaking makes the cooking time shorter.