What can I do with slightly undercooked rice?
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May 26th, 2008
I mixed brown rice with wild rice and threw it in the rice cooker…it didn’t cook very well. I can’t make rice pudding out of it because the wild rice would taste weird in a pudding. Anything I can do to make it tasty, or do I have to throw it away?
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cook it more and eat it!!!
Crunchy rice. I hate when that happens. What can you do? Not much.
Did you try adding new water and recooking it? I am concerned that it might end up mushy, but at least it would be usable in a casserole or fried rice that way.
Why rule out rice pudding? I bet the wild rice would add an interesting flavor and texture.
Taco. Think about all the starving people in the world and then think what you just said…pretty selfish
Experiment with it… If you figure out how to make rice crispies let me know lol
Mrs. Dr. – shipping a box of half-cooked rice to Starving Child, c/o Humble Village, Botswana isn’t going to help anyone. It’d be undercooked AND stale by the time it got there. Probably moldy, too.
Then they’d just think we’re a bunch of assholes.
(We ARE a bunch of assholes.)
Sfinkel offers a good suggestion. I had this exact
problem once upon a time. The wild rice is lovely. It’s as if you threw some little
slivered almonds into the rice pudding. Add some raisins too.
It would be my dog’s lucky day.
Feed it to they birds. They will love it.
I’m thinking maybe I can use the rice to make stuffed peppers – and the extra cooking time will soften the rice? Hmmmm…I’ll give it a try…anyone have any great stuffed pepper recipes?
Here’s what I ended up doing – it came out delicious! I highly recommend it.
Easy Stuffed Peppers
make 2 cups rice the day before – brown rice mixed
with some wild rice. You can do it in the rice cooker
if you have one. Don’t worry if it’s a little
undercooked.
sautee one onion (chopped really small), 1 zucchini
chopped really small, and the tops of six red peppers
also diced finely. sautee a while.
add salt, pepper, and 1/3 cup veggie broth.
add the day-old rice – stir.
add 1/2 cup tomato sauce – stir.
fill 6 peppers with the mixture.
Put the peppers standing up in a big soup pot – fill the bottom of the soup
pot with 2 cups tomato sauce and 1 cup water, around
the bottoms of the peppers. turn up heat till sauce
boils, then turn town cover pot, and simmer for 20
min and let the steam cook the peppers.
after 20 min, open the pot and spoon some of the sauce
on top of the peppers. then simmer another 15 minutes.
enjoy!
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