Still can't perfect rice

[AVAFREAK182]

anyone got tips on how to cook sticky rice?

I have jasmine and a rice cooker, but I just can't get it right.

Rinse/soak?

 

[sdifox]

what are you trying to do with the rice?

 

[AVAFREAK182]

what are you trying to do with the rice?

read the very first line of the thread

 

[El Guaraguao]

how bout using less oil? or less water?

 

[PottedMeat]

how bout using less oil? or less water?

why would he use oil when cooking rice?

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shouldn't OP be using glutinous rice? you're not going to get sticky rice with jasmine alone.

 

[FallenHero]

put a little bit of butter in the water.

 

[Spikesoldier]

get a rice cooker that cooks perfect rice

 

[Wyndru]

put a little bit of butter in the water.

Came here to post this, I usually put a tablespoon of butter in and use a little less water.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Let the rise soak in the water for about 15 minutes before you start cooking.

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[AVAFREAK182]

how much water per cup of rice?

 

[techs]

If I understand it correctly first you need glutinous rice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_rice

 

[Imdmn04]

Get a Zojirushi, problem solved.

 

[lxskllr]

put a little bit of butter in the water.

Wouldn't that make it less sticky?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Boil and steam it until it is at desired stickyness.

 

[bobdole369]

and a rice cooker

This is the problem.

In order to successfully cook rice you need to know the way its done without using a crutch tool. Lots of rice cookers are glorified hotplates and take no input from the meal. In short, they are gimmicks. Stop using it until you know how to make it work.

measure desired said jasmine rice. (1 cup (US) is good to start)

measure twice the amount of rice of water. So 2 cups here.

Add a tablespoon of olive oil, corn oil, veg oil, butter, something like that. Just a fat that lubes is for all you are looking.

Take a normal saucepan with a lid, put in the water and the oil.

Boil the water/oil on High with the lid off.

Once the water boils, pour in the jasmine rice. Put it ALL in. Stir for about a minute, the boiling should resume.

Turn down the heat - to (1) or Lo, maybe "Simmer". Put the lid on. Stay in the vicinity as the lid will cause the mixture to boil a couple more times. Just remove the lid, stir and replace until the mixture stops boiling over.

Depending on the package instructions, it should be something like 20 minutes from the simmer point. Its important to leave the rice alone and not to take off the lid for a majority of that time.

 

[bobdole369]

Oh and Jasmine isn't a very sticky rice. You want something called "sticky" rice if you intend to do sushi. It has more gluten. Ask your local asian grocer.

 

[biggestmuff]

Use short-grain rice.

Search for the Alton Brown rice episode.

 

[TecHNooB]

Oh and Jasmine isn't a very sticky rice. You want something called "sticky" rice if you intend to do sushi. It has more gluten. Ask your local asian grocer.

This

 

[onlyCOpunk]

Isn't Jasmine rice an Indian rice? Wouldn't sticky rice be more east asian? Don't they sell "sushi rice" at least I've seen it in the stores, and bought it to make sushi. It's short fat grains.

Either way your rice cooker probably came with a little "recipe" book that instructs you on how to make the rice you want regardless if it's just a hot plate. Then again you need to buy the right rice.

 

[Kaido]

Do you have a dial-based rice cooker or one with fuzzy logic?

 

[kitchiku]

Its your rice to water ratio, it depends on the kind of rice. I don't know about jasmin but Japanese rice is usually 1 cup rice to 1.5 cups water. When I cook rice, I don't measure in cups look at it its volume on the rice cooker. Lets say the level of the rice on the rice cooker is about 1 cm, I add water up to the 2 cm mark. For a more sticky rice, I add about 1 cm more.

 

[summit]

you need calrose rice.

 

[oppie1]

we use about a tablespoon of rice wine vinegar in or rice cooker.. makes it nice and sticky

 

[sdifox]

read the very first line of the thread

sigh, sticky rice is a very broad description. It can range from tar sticky to sweat sticky. Depends on your application. That is why I asked what you are trying to do.