Making brown rice not taste like brown crap?

[bobdole369]

Just eat it and like it. It builds character.

 

[TheVrolok]

Buy better brown rice? I've had some really good brown rice .. maybe it's just a brand thing?

 

[Squisher]

I've never eaten plain rice be it white or brown. Pilaf was a served with 90% of meals my mom made. All pilaf is is browning something in butter then pouring the water/chicken stock over it and boil the rice in this. With traditional Armenian white rice you brown some fine egg noodles. With brown rice I might brown anything I have on hand, onions, mushrooms, veggies.

 

[DT4K]

If I did a blind test I will find it hard to taste the difference between quality white and brown rice.

I'm so sorry to hear that. It must suck to live your life without taste buds.

 

[Bryophyte]

I like brown rice. It's chewier and nuttier than white rice. Anyway, make sure you store brown rice properly. Like most whole grains, the oils in the husks/bran will go rancid unless you store them at cool temperatures. The freezer (wrapped up sufficiently so that it doesn't pick up freezer odors) is best. Fridge works too. Rancid brown rice is inedible.

 

[DougK62]

You're probably cooking it wrong. To me, brown rice tastes SOOOO much better than boring white rice. And most people that I cook it for agree.

 

[KeithTalent]

Another thing people do is roast your rice lightly -- like 5 minutes or less -- in a hot cast iron pan before you cook/boil it. You can either dry roast it or use a little bit of olive oil/butter.

Ahh yes, I do this as well. I usually just toast it in the pot with a small amount of fat before adding the liquid.

KT

 

[shopbruin]

I used to make brown rice and hated the texture. Then I started making it again recently and actually like it a lot.

1. Get a better rice cooker. I used to have a Tiger rice cooker, and it didn't cook the rice well. I now have one of the Zojirushi fuzzy logic rice cookers with a really good rice setting, and my rice comes out nice and fluffy and light.

2. Short grain brown rice tastes much better. The hubs buys it at the Japanese market - Nijiya. Last time he bought Nishiki, not sure what brand he got this time, but it was another Japanese brand.

 

[vailr]

Cook in a rice cooker with about 2 1/2 parts water to 1 part rice + a tablespoon of coconut oil.
After cooking is done, add to taste: sea salt and sesame tahini.
The best tasting variety is Lundberg Organic Brown Sweet Rice.
Most health foods stores carry it.

 

[keird]

dONT TRHOW IT AT TEH WEDDINGS OTERWISE THEY ASPLODE

Edit: the above post was originally capital letters for a particular emphasis.

 

[crownjules]

Use chicken broth to boil the rice instead of water. Low sodium broth is obviously more healthy.

 

[Wag]

Use lots of teriyaki.

 

[zinfamous]

Making brown rice not taste like brown crap?

stop pooping in your rice?

 

[CountZero]

Get better brown rice? Did you get long or short grain? What kind of white rice do you like (at the very least do you like the kind of rice that sticks together or the kind that tends to fall into loose grains)? For nearly every variety of white rice that exists you can get a brown rice variety (some more readily than others). If you like sticky rice its pretty hard to get brown rice to ever act like that.

Toasting sounds like it would intensify the 'nutty' flavor which I'm guessing isn't something you want to do if you already don't like brown rice.