I might be extremely late to the game on this one, but I don’t care. Everyone needs to know about this. Because if you are also late to the game, you deserve to have your life changed as well.
Chef Consultant and friend of the blog, Devon, recently told me about Alton Brown’s Rice in a Rush recipe. This recipe is so simple you might think there’s a catch.
But there isn’t a catch.
I made the recipe ahead of the Hawaiian Brunch for the fried rice base and was halfway expecting to burn the rice or make gluey rice soup or have something equally disastrous happen. But nothing of the sort took place.
I had given up on trying to make rice years ago. There are 90-second microwave packets of rice in my pantry right now because it seemed like no matter what I did, the rice would always be wrong. And never wrong in the same way. Rice was a dish that would always find new and interesting ways to go to crap. I was so out of my depth I finally just stepped back and declared the art of rice making unknowable.
But then, I looked ahead on our class schedule for my basic food prep class and realized our next practical test included making rice pilaf. I was going to have tame the savage beast or I might as well drop out now.
Granted, we aren’t using this exact recipe for the rice pilaf in class. But the one we are using is stunningly similar. Not to mention, what I really needed to do with this exercise was prove to myself that I can make rice and gain some confidence that I wouldn’t be outsmarted by grains.
So if you are lacking confidence with rice, try this recipe. Show those grains who’s boss!