How do you like your rice cooked?
@Bluebelleangel (428)
Philippines
June 25, 2010 3:17pm CST
Filipinos have a lot of ways in cooking rice. I like my rice best steamed and served steaming hot. A remedy we do here when we have leftover rice from the night before is to fry the rice with lots of crisped brown garlic and seasoned with salt. In Chinese restaurants, we always go for a rice recipe they call Yang chow. This one is a variation of fried rice but had a lot of ingredients to it which includes meat and vegetables. One can eat this rice without a need for viand.
In some areas of the country, rice is cooked in their traditional and customary ways. Sometimes, they are cooked inside the bamboo pole and sometimes exotic ingredients are added to previously cooked rice before packing in banana leaves to be cooked again.
Hot steaming rice is good with any viand and I love it a little bit sticky. What about you, do you like eating rice? How do you like it cooked?
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6 responses
@avani26 (1518)
• India
27 Jun 10
My sister is a very good cook and loves to cook Fillipino dishes. Honestly speaking I have never tasted it but everyone else in my family vouches of the good taste. She loves to try out recipes of different countries.
I and my hubby do love our rice steaming hot. We order for fried rice though whenever we eat out.
@Bluebelleangel (428)
• Philippines
28 Jun 10
You should try our authentic Filipino recipes. We also have a hosts of spicey dishes and if you love curries, you'll certainly love these dishes. Thanks for the response!
@kedralynn (980)
• United States
26 Jun 10
I love rice and I love it's many variations. From the steamed white rice that I was raised on (my mom is Japanese), to herb and butter, or cheesy Parmesan, to fried rice (I often make it with bacon and left over white rice from the day before), or even rice in my soup. It's all pretty good to me :)
@Bluebelleangel (428)
• Philippines
26 Jun 10
Hi Kedralynn,
Rice in it's many variations are really worth trying but I always love mine plain and steamed because it doesn't get in the way of the taste of the viand you are eating it with.
Thanks for the response. Have a nice day!
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
25 Jun 10
I love it the way they cook it at Chinese restaurants, I believe it is steamed, I can just eat it plain, that's how much I like it. I have a rice cooker here at my house and it pretty much cooks rice perfectly. Most of the time after I get it out of the rice cooker I will then place it in a wok pan with a little oil and stir fry it with some veggies and maybe some meat and some good teryaki sauce. I also like to just eat it with some butter on it and some Italian seasoning mixed in, it is so good.
@Bluebelleangel (428)
• Philippines
26 Jun 10
Hi Ladym33,
Chinese restaurants really do a good job at cooking rice. We share the same taste in eating our rice. My aunt who was in America for almost 40 years used to tell me, Americans prefer to eat salads and sandwiches but I'm sure anyone would love to eat rice especially when it's still steaming hot together with their favorite viand.
Thanks for replying. Have a nice day!
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
2 Jul 10
Well rice is my favorite and i cannot think of my lunch and dinner without it. I like to be hot and well boiled.
@Bluebelleangel (428)
• Philippines
26 Jun 10
Hi Sjlskl,
That's quite something. I also know a few people one of whom is my mom, who prefers their rice cooked the way you like it too. I never enjoyed eating if my rice is very chewy or a bit hard because I need to exert more effort in chewing the food and I am having a hard time swallowing it so when they serve me rice cooked that way, I always add soup or broth or sometimes plain but previously boiled water to soften it before eating.
Thanks for the reply. Have a nice day!
@cleverson99 (102)
• Brazil
25 Jun 10
I live in Brazil and here we eat rice almost daily. I like my rice cooked traditionally, or sometimes, mashed and fried like cookies.
@Bluebelleangel (428)
• Philippines
26 Jun 10
Hi Cleverson99,
I've heard of bread made from rice flour but this is the first time I've heard something like mashed rice fried like cookies. Do you add something else to it as flavoring before frying or you just fry the plain mashed rice?
