How to cook rice in the microwave: the best recipes

Every housewife uses a microwave oven to heat, defrost or bake something.However, this device can be used for boiling cereals, vegetables and pasta. We will tell you how to cook rice in the microwave and present the best recipes for cooking to hostesses.

There are many varieties of this useful and nutritious cereal, and each of them is unique in its taste and chemical composition. However, most often on our tables you can find white - round and long-grain - rice groats. These cereals are rich in essential trace elements and vitamins (including B and PP) and provide the body with invaluable benefits. Rice diets prescribed for disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and hypertension, as well as for weight loss. True, diabetics do not eat food from this product.

Fans of culinary experiences should try cooking in the microwave ovens such varieties as "Jasmine", "Basmati", "Arborio", "Fushigon", "Devzira", "Indyka", golden, red, wild, brown, and also mixtures several varieties.

The main thing in the preparation of any dish is the correct amount of water so that it does not turn out to be too liquid or, on the contrary, too dry. Another thing to remember is that the preparation of each variety of rice has its own nuances. Usually, a description of the cooking conditions (how much liquid you need to take for a certain number of servings, what time the dish should be spent in the microwave) can be found on packages of these cereals.

The rice washed with the above method is filled with water in a ratio of 1: 2. The main thing to be remembered when cooking this dish in a microwave oven is taken from specially designed dishes (glass or plastic container with a lid).

For cooking white rice you need to take:

• one cup of cereal (150 g);
• two cups of cold water (300 ml);
• vegetable oil (one tablespoon);
• salt.

In a bowl with rice, add one and a half cups of water and oil, mix everything. Salt can be added both before cooking and after, at your discretion.

Cooking white rice is divided into two stages. First, from the rice you need to evaporate the water and allow it to swell. To do this, for 15 minutes at a power of 800 W, the croup is cooked without a lid. After that, pour the rest of the water into the dishes, cover the container with a lid (if rice is cooked in plastic, do not close it tightly) and cook rice for another 5 minutes.

When this time is over, you can give the rice "walk" about 10 more minutes - then the croup will be more tender and soft. This rice can be stuffed cabbage rolls, pies, puddings or put it on the side dish. Well such a dish and as a quick snack for those who watch their figure.

Rice in packets most often already steamed, so it will be easier to cook. Such cereals have a big plus - it has undergone preliminary heat treatment and therefore is easier absorbed by the body.

Fill bags with croup boiling water so that it covers them completely. Usually for two packages, 600 ml of boiling water, that is, about three glasses, are taken. To taste, you can add salt, curry powder or turmeric to give the rice a nice color.

After this, put the dishes (unclosed) in the microwave oven, turned on at maximum power, for 13-15 minutes. When the timer is triggered, we take out and fold the bags of cereals in a colander, let the liquids drain. Ready-made rice is laid out from the cut packets onto plates for serving.

The method of cooking rice for these dishes has its own characteristics.It should not be crumbly; on the contrary, the stronger the grains stick together, the better.

Rice cooking will follow the following technology:

• the croup is soaked for 40 minutes in cold water;
• water is drained and the cereal is transferred to a special container;
• fresh water is added there (in the proportion of one and a half cups of water per cup of rice) and lightly salted;
• closed dishes put in the microwave oven;
• the cooking process takes 8 minutes at maximum power, and during cooking the grits should be mixed several times;
• after the timer is triggered, the dishes with cereal are removed from the oven, vinegar for sushi is added to the finished “porridge” and left to cool.

To make the dish cooked in the microwave more appetizing and juicier, different vegetables are added to it, giving it a new flavor. Prepare by taking the following ingredients per six servings:

• 300 g (2 cups) cereals;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 pinches of salt;
• 450 ml (3 cups) of water;
• cooking oil for frying.

The preparation method is as follows:

• washed (as indicated for cooking crumbly rice) soaked cereal for 10 minutes;
• finely chop the onion and dice the carrots;
• fry vegetables in a glass dish on oil in a microwave (set at maximum power) for 3 minutes;
• soaked rice dumped into a colander, washed again and let the water drain;
• mix cereals and vegetables, pour water until it covers this mixture;
• the main cooking time is 10 minutes, the power of the microwave oven is 80%.
• after the timer signal, we stir the discarded dish, salt it and send to the oven for another 3 minutes.

This hearty, tasty and nutritious dish can be prepared according to the recipe, for which you need to take (based on six servings):

• 400 g chicken white meat (breast);
• 200 grams of rice;
• 450 ml (3 cups) of broth;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 30 g butter;
• 1 onion;
• salt and pepper (to taste).

Washed cereal soaked in the above method in cool water for 1 hour. Vegetables cut into strips, and chicken - in small pieces. Once again, wash the rice and mix it with vegetable and meat preparations, salt and pepper. Fill it all with broth and add softened butter. This mixture is prepared in an open dish for 15 minutes in a microwave oven set to a power of 850 watts. Then close the dishes and bring the dish to readiness for another 7 minutes.

This dish is a classic Oriental cuisine. It will require:

• pre-boiled rice groats;
• washed raisins (raisins);
• fried carrots and onions;
• butter;
• salt and pepper to taste.

The number of ingredients depends on the number of servings. Mixed components pour a glass of salted boiling water and send in the microwave oven, included in the average power for 8 minutes. After the timer signal, we give the plov another 10 minutes to stand in the oven so that it becomes even softer and tastier.

If you want to pamper your home with something original, you should try a side dish with tea. He is preparing so:

• pre-washed cereal lay in a dish for the microwave and pour hot water;
• salt and add a spoonful of vegetable oil;
• Put a bag of green jasmine tea into the dishes (having previously pulled out a metal bracket).

So that the boiling liquid “does not run away”, it is worthwhile to draw a “border” on the inner walls of the pan with a piece of butter.

Cooking time - 10 minutes on the power of the microwave oven 600 watts. When this time is over, the dish is stirred and “torn” in the microwave for another 5 minutes. Serve this side dish by mixing it with butter.

To rice dishes always work out, you can "take a pencil" some tips from experienced hostesses:

• boil the cereal can be not only on the water, but also on vegetable and meat broth to give the dishes a special taste; when preparing a side dish for salmon, take the salmon marinade as a basis;
• if you decide to make rice quickly and foam has formed, then it is necessary to reduce the cooking temperature and remove scale with a spoon or skimmer;
• in order to garnish or porridge become crumbly, it is worth adding one or two tablespoons of vegetable or butter to them when cooking, and to “fluff up” ready rice with a fork;
• cooking brown or wild rice will take at least 25 minutes, and it should be poured with boiling water in a ratio of 3 (water): 1 (cereal);
• utensils designed for cooking this cereal should be large enough (about four times larger) to have enough space for boiling liquid and swollen rice;
• You can improve the taste of the filling or side dish with various seasonings (ginger, turmeric, curry powder, black mustard, mixtures of herbs).

Everyone who checks the presented methods of rice cooking in practice remains satisfied with them. After all, modern perfect microwave technology allows you to speed up and simplify the cooking of dishes from this cereal. Housewives have more time for other things in the kitchen, and they don’t have to be distracted by the constant stirring of rice.

In addition, cooking dishes in this way allows you to save all the healthy vitamins and minerals that rice is rich in, and makes it possible to diversify the diet by adding different vegetables to the cereal (onions, carrots, peppers, pumpkins, corn, green peas), meat, fruits, raisins , nuts, sour cream, dates.

More and more housewives begin to prefer recipes based on rice cooked in a microwave. Meals are much tastier, softer and more nutritious, cook faster and better. Also, there are no such “charms” of cooking, like rice burnt to the pan and mountains of dirty dishes.

How to cook rice in the microwave, see the following video.