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How do you prepare overly starchy rice that doesn't absorb water right so that it'll cook properly? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Normally just washing basmati rice has been enough to make it cook well, but the generic brand I've been buying for years seems to have changed their supplier or something and now what should be the same exact rice doesn't cook right anymore and turns out disgusting. How do I compensate for this? Do I just wash it even more thoroughly? Do I wash it, let it soak in clean water for a while, and then wash it again?

I'm kind of at a loss for how to fix it because I've never encountered such starchy, shitty quality basmati rice before.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried reducing the amount of water you cook the rice in?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Not yet, no. I've stuck with the same ratio that I've been using, which is also what the bag says. It doesn't seem to just still be wet when it should have already absorbed all the water though, but that it doesn't seem completely cooked at that point, but then cooking it a little longer seems to overcook it. Or maybe that's just from all the excess starch, because it reminds me of the awful rice I grew up eating that would always be horribly starchy and bland and overcooked.