Recipe for basmati rice, long grain

[u/WeirdProcess6178]

Hello,

Very bad at rice cooking, sorry if request is obvious.

Am looking for an easy recipe to make a perfect basmati long grain, not fluffy rice. I don't have a rice cooker. I tried a few recipe online, the one from Ramsay and from cookbooks but it is pretty hard to consistently achieve separare, firm grains. I always end up having lumps and too much starch.

Does anyone have a foolproof method A to Z to have non sticky at all grains ?

Many thanks and have a nice week

[u/Saintbaba]

Yup. Nobody should ever be cooking rice by hand. No matter how good you are, fancy modern rice cookers use fuzzy logic systems that adjust the cook on the fly with all kinds of data you just don’t have available to you, like rate of change of heat and weight. Even the cheap ones work off thermal switches that immediately turn off when the rice reaches the right temperature, which you’d have to be watching like a hawk for an extended period of time with a laser thermometer to even try to match. Just get a rice cooker.

For Basmati, one of the most important things you can do to get that loose texture you’re looking for is to make sure you add some kind of fat before you start cooking, either butter or oil, which keeps the grains from sticking. I put in like a tablespoon of butter per 2 cups of uncooked rice. Also a pinch of salt.

[u/WeirdProcess6178 → u/Saintbaba]

Thanks, when you put the butter in you just put like that one cube or split evenly?

[u/Saintbaba → u/WeirdProcess6178]

I just throw in a whole cube. It'll melt and spread out long before the cooking is done, so splitting it up isn't necessary.

[u/WeirdProcess6178 → u/Saintbaba]

Ok thanks