Boiled Rice Two Ways - Stove Top & Rice Cooker - A Takeaway Dish

[@MotosAllotmentGarden]

😊👍

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Cheers!

[@BrainStormAcres]

I will sometimes add 1-2 teaspoons of coconut oil to the cooker when starting to cook the rice. I either cook 1/2 cup of 2 cups of rice. If you cool the rice in the fridge overnight you end up with r starch. Resistant starch modification of rice reduces calories by 35-50% and slows conversion to sugar.

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

That is so true - I forgot to mention that!

[@sandram1503]

Lovely rice 👍Thanks Steve and take care

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Rice cooker everytime for me though!

[@sandram1503]

No space to have a rice cooker. I don't know where you manage to stash all your gadgets. Lol. 🤣😂🤣

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@sandram1503 Speaking of which, I must have a clear out of the little used ones! Can't remember the last time I used the Churros maker!

[@sandram1503]

🤣🤷‍♀️

[@turbostream7925]

I only make rice occasionally for my version of “kedgree” so I use the stove top method. I rinse a few times, then add loads of water and simmer for around 12 mins with an egg in there to hard boil. Then the egg comes out and gets put in cold water & I leave the rice to sit for a good 20mins off the heat. The rice then gets drained off and re rinsed in cold water, then add a knob of butter on a low heat and add a smoked mackerel fillet chopped up before chopping the hard boiled egg in. I read that cooked and cooled rice/potatoes etc cuts the blood sugar response. Anyway that’s my odd method of cooking rice for a specific recipe 😁

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

That sounds great! On my list to try👍

[@Nicktgrief]

we get our Rice from Tescles

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Not Asdles? 🤣

[@ragheadand420roll]

Dont forget to thank california for your rice. Arkansas produces more but it has more arsenic. Thx diggy 🇺🇸✌️🙏

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

I know Ben's rice comes from America, I'll have to look at the labels of the other ones I use next time and shout a thank you LOL

[@uptheplots]

I’ve been thinking of getting a rice cooker but here’s how I do it. 1 part rice (don’t rinse for sticky rice) to 2 parts water. Bring to boil, simmer for 10 minutes. Switch off and leave in pan for 10 minutes. Jasmine or Basmati. Done 👍 🍚

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Even if you only use it once a mounth, you will thank yourself. I mean, if every family in the far east has one ...... LOL

[@BrainStormAcres]

@@DigwellGreenfingerstruer words have seldom been said! We’ve been using rice cookers for many years!

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@BrainStormAcres So easy too! I think burned rice has to be up there with one of those smells you never forget (another is a charcoal black egg bouncing around a pan when your Mum has fallen asleep cooking OMG!)

[@BrainStormAcres]

@ UGH! Barley I think makes a more penetrating fragrance … meat products aren’t as bad, but grains …

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@BrainStormAcres Or when you reach intoa bag for the last few potatoes and your hand squelches one that is rotten 🤣

[@myrustygarden]

😂😂😂😂😂 ok so in other words choose your own way, Ali 😶‍🌫️🥶🇨🇦

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Absolutly! x

[@donnastevens8832]

After getting diagnosed with Type II diabetes late 2022, I have yet to actually ‘see’ my diabetes nurse. I’ve spoken to her once by phone and she basically told me NOTHING. I am just supposed to take the pills, end of story. WHAT A LOAD OF TWADDLE!! And she keeps trying to put me onto Metformin even though I have an adverse reaction to taking it. I literally HATE the NHS where I am - I’d get more help from a chocolate fire guard. Any helpful suggestions on what a reluctant diabetic is to do. I really don’t want to spend what’s left of my life taking more and more different tablets. You just seem to take one more to fight the effects from a previous one. I would like to just stop the lot!! I was even told by the diabetes clinic WITHIN TWO WEEKS of getting diagnosed, that it has affected my eye sight. Further comment, come back in a year. No explanation, no what to do to help, nothing. I feel so let down. So Steve, do I watch sugar, cut carbs, what?

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Same time as me then, Donna. I was advised to "attend" 4 of the 6 online courses available in my NHS area (the other 2 were for Type 1). Not sure if this is the same one or not: healthyliving.nhs.uk/?NHSUK& Very good info, such as: there is no such thing as a diabetes diet, just eat less free sugars. Anything with the letters "ose" at the end are bad but those that come with things like fibre are better for you as they are eith absorbed more slowly or pass througgh quicker. EG Orange juice bad, oranges not so bad. Processed white bread, pasta, rice worse than wholegrain or brown. Don't eat less, eat wiser, swap half of your mashed potato for mashed swede and carrot for example. I'm seeing the nurse for my annual next Wednesday, I'll get the usual telling off and I avoid metformin for another year, hopefully!