| Did you know that something like 90% of the worlds | | | | More dinner ideas for rice are to sprinkle paprika or chili |
| population eats rice every day. It's super cheap and | | | | powder on top during its last cooking minutes. Also |
| easy to make and leaves you feeling full and satisfied. | | | | consider cooking up a can of soup or stew and ladling |
| The problem with far too many people though, is that | | | | that over the finished rice and serving it as a main |
| they just don't know how to prepare it or dress it up. | | | | course. |
| Use 1.5 cups of water for every 1 cup of plain rice and | | | | To make sure that your rice is cooked thoroughly and |
| always remember to toss in about half a teaspoon of | | | | not crunchy and uncooked in the middle of the grain, |
| salt. Now if that sounds too basic for you then try | | | | simply prepare a large pot of boiling water. After the |
| replacing the salt with about one teaspoon of chicken | | | | rice has cooked down to the point that all the water |
| or beef bullion. | | | | has been absorbed in, let the pot of rice sit in the boiling |
| Let it come to a boil then turn the stove down to low | | | | water for about 5 minutes. |
| and let the rice simmer with the pots lid on until you | | | | Or you can make it easier to use rice in your dinner |
| can't any more water. Once it has cooked this far | | | | recipes by preparing it ahead of time and keeping a |
| (about ten minutes) consider tossing some sliced | | | | container of it in the fridge. When dinner time rolls |
| tomatoes or ground meat balls on top to cook the rest | | | | around, simply scoop the cold rice into a hot pan, toss |
| of the way with it. | | | | in a little water then heat it up on the stove. |