Bake and Boil Method
By: Anonymous
Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 11:08pm

Ingredients




2 cups long-grain rice
4 cups water
Salt to taste
Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Preparation

1 Combine rice, water and salt in medium, oven-safe saucepan. Heat to boiling; stir, cover, place in oven. Cook 12 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes. Fluff with fork before serving. 2 Back to basics 3 "It has been said often, too often, that making properly cooked rice is virtually impossible," Yin-Fei Lo writes in "The Chinese Kitchen." "This is of course not so." 4 She is a rice renegade in that she cooks rice with the lid off, and stirs it to boot. She prefers Texas-grown extra-long-grain rice. This produces a great texture for Chinese dishes: Slightly resistant grains that cling to one another but aren't sticky or wet. 5 This also works with Thai jasmine rice and basmati, though the grains break up more with the stirring.