Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Prepare Rice in a vessel in 15 minutes

               Welcome to all those guys who dont know cooking... Herez starting you with a starter guide to prepare rice. Well, if your wife or mom is not in town and you dont like eating out and you feel like eating your own food.. start with rice... Its for a novice. Its very simple. If you have a Rice Cooker which can automatically prepare rice for you - all you have to do is, take a small glass, Take Half a glass of Raw rice into a bowl, Wash rice with water so that the dust goes off. Dont over-wash... you can wash it twice with water. Throw away the water. Now in the washed rice, pour water which is double the size of the raw rice that you kept. Since you kept half a glass of raw rice, pour one (full) glass of water. Put it in the cooker vessel, close the vessel and switch on the light. Go and Watch TV and come after 20 mins, your rice is done..

                Most of the time, its very easy to cook in a small vessel directly than a Rice cooker.. No problem, if you dont have a rice cooker, you can prepare rice in a normal vessel bowl. Its again the same formula but you need to be little cautious this time because if you are not cautious, you might throw away the cooked rice after your experiment.. All those lazy bums, bachelors can try this as a MUST. Its as simple as doing one of your Electronics lab exam with all diodes and resistors... or your LATHE machine cuttings...

  • Take half a glass of raw rice, put it in the vessel
  • Wash the raw rice with water and throw away the water
  • Now measure and pour Water into the vessel containing the washed rice, Quantity of water should be double the quantity of the raw rice kept.
  • Light your gas stove (Preferably the smaller burner :))
  • Put the flame in FULL-burning mode (knob pointing 90 degrees)
  • Now keep the Vessel with Rice + Double Water poured into on the litted stove. Dont forget to close the vessel with a lid (a small plate)
  • Wait for 3-5 mins, until you see that the water in the rice is boiling and pushing off the lid (Small plate) kept on top of the vessel. You can see that, the water pushes off the plate if you wait for more time..
  • Immediately you gotta Put the Gas Stove in SIM (Lowest Possible FLAME).... Open the Lid (small plate covering the vessel) little (Dont remove the plate completely, cover it say 3/4th, keeping 1/4th open.. roughly). NEVER put the flame high after this point till the end of it...
  • Now go and relax watch TV for say 10-15 minutes.
  • Its good to come in between and have a look at it every 5 minutes but dont put your hand inside and try experimenting... Dont Stir the rice+water mix at any point of time since the start till the end.. ITS not required. If you try doing it, you will end up making a paste. Also, you might have seen your mom taking off the water from the rice bowl in the middle of the preparation sometime, You dont bother about it. You dont Do it.. NOT required.
  • After the time is elapsed, you can make out the rice is actually done... So how do you confirm? Well, there shouldn't be any water left out either on the top or at the bottom... Take a small spoon and put it inside the rice vessel to see if the bottom portion of the rice is not containing water. It so happens that the top 50% of portion of vessel containing rice is done but the lower portion is still having water.. i.e., rice is still being made.. leave it for some more time.. until you feel - OK no water is in at the bottom now..
  • Thats it your rice is done. Switch off the Gas stove. Wait for 5 mins and start eating...

You can have pickles, Curd, Egg curry or curries from outside and have with it...  Caution: While preparing in vessel make sure you dont watch TV for long time while you kept gas stove in FULL-burning mode, Water boils and pushes off the lid and spills water outside. Once it spills water outside, you need to pour more water, but if your measurement is wrong and you keep pouring more and more water, prepare yourself for a RICE-PASTA... Gud luck..

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