Hi there Scott Merrick here and in this quick video I want to show you how to cook steamed rice just using a rice cooker if you're going to have a curry or like any kind of sort of like a wet what's called a wet dish or the casserole or something and what a very very simple I suppose carbohydrate to serve with it if you don't want to serve potatoes is rice. And I love basmati rice, Jasmine rice, or rice, any kind of rice station but cooking rice particularly steamed rice is not one of my strong points, shall we say? Every chef has their blind spots and cooking rice is mine. So I like to take all the guesswork out of it. And by doing that, I ought to do that. What I actually do is I use a rice cooker.

Now this rice cooker here. quite cute. Excellent. Tiffany right Cook myself in my life we've had this rice cooker for I think I remember this rice cooker my wife using it when we first met and that was well over 10 years ago so it's still going strong. So simple rice cooker to cook rice. So that's our rice cooker.

That's what we're going to use. Now what kind of rice to cook and Jasmine rice is a Thai rice which traditionally goes with a Thai dish and very fragrant, but my favorite rice is basmati rice, Indian rice, it's just I think it's just delicious. Plus, it's actually a lot easier to cook. So I buy my rice. I don't buy my rice in the supermarket. What I would recommend is you will go to a one of the Indian grocery stores or the Asian grocery stores close by and have one and buy like a five key Bag of basmati rice there are different grades of rice and you can go from like a basic up to like super expensive like high end rice saying that even expensive rice is still really really good value I bought five kilos of I suppose you'd call medium grade basmati rice for I think it was about $10 and that's lasted us like three months because you know we don't eat a lot of rice ourselves saying that like kilos in three months seems to be quite a lot so basmati rice if you want to you want to come over here I can show you what it looks like.

So this is our basmati rice here and you can see it actually got very ugly you can see that very very like long grains. Jasmine rice tends to have like a like a shorter grain and is a bit more sticky. But basmati rice has a long life. Long grains, the the high quality the rice what I tend to find is the the longer the grain and give beautiful beautiful rice. So that as Marty rice. So that's our rice.

And then I can hear you saying well that's all well and good Scott. But how do we cook it so very, very simply. There's a ratio of rice to water when you cook it. I tend to find one cup of rice to one and a half cups of water. So today what we're going to do, we're going to cook two cups of rice. So that would mean I would add three cups of water to the to the rice cooker.

But before we do that, a couple of little tricks that you might not know about to help your rice not to stick and be nice and light and fluffy after it's caught. There's nothing worse than like stodgy sticky rice. It's the first thing We do is we we actually wash our eyes first. And what that does is we just wash it three times and putting cooking now what that does is that washes a lot of the start chopping outside of the rice put into honor for putting too much rice, two cups of rice That's right. What that does is wash a lot of the startup the outside device which makes it plugin. Then after we've done that, what we do is we add about a tablespoon of oil to the rice and mix it up with our fingers.

What that does that coat each grain of rice with oil and that helps a rice to cook on the inside without releasing a lot of the stuff she's out into the liquid and making it sludgy as well and it helps the rise separate when cooks so it's nice and light and fluffy when it's finished cooking. So we're going to watch this rice now in the sink if you want to come over to the sink, and I'll show you how we do that and what it should look like when it's finished when we finished washing it. So come over to the sink now and watch the rice. So it's a wash our eyes. We do that from water in like this. And then with your fingers.

Just stare your eyes a little bit. When you can see the waters gone a little bit milking. What that is, that's a lot of the starch that's coming off the rice. So what we do now is very, very gently pull that down the sink and we do it again. Mix it up with your fingers. Each time you do it, the water will get a little bit clearer.

You're not going to wash all the starch off the rice, but you'll get the majority of so you can see the water you can see that the water is actually a little bit clearer can see that on the camera on off. So what we're doing now, just the way to pass our water as much as you can then Well our eyes looks like now then what we do is this is just plain vegetable oil at about one tablespoon and then just stir your rice with your fingers and this will coat your eyes with the oil and help it not stick when we're cooking. So that's our rice already to cook now. Next thing we do is we add our, our water. So we've added two cups, two cups of rice in here, so one and a half cups of water to a cup of rice so that means we need three cups of water.

So one too Come over and have a closer look or show you what your eyes should look like before we pop into the rice cooker. So we've got a water in our bowl now that goes into the rice cooker. But what you need to do is make sure that every little piece of rice is pushed down the side so it's under the water. It's like that. Then all we do puppet into the rice cooker like this. Put on the lid.

And now my favorite bit of having to cook rice is all you do is you push the button down and it says rice cooking. That's it. What the rods cookbook they will cook your rice and as soon as your is cooked, what will happen is this light will go from rice cooking to keep on so keep your rice nice and warm before so you can so you can serve it and this will take about 20 minutes to cook. But what's great is you can then put your rice on to cook put it to one side and you can go and do other things while your rice is cooking and you don't have to worry about it or watch it to make sure it doesn't overcook because as soon as it's cooked, the rice cooker will turn off and just keep it warm for you. So that's how to cook basmati rice in a rice cooker.

And later on. I'll show you exactly what it looks like after it's cooked. All right finish cooking about 10 minutes ago, and I heard the bottom row click and what it did was it stopped going from Russia Cooking to keep warm so a rice has been keeping warm now for about 10 minutes. So if you want to come over and have a show exactly what the rice looks like. So, here's our rice on side and you can see how it's beautiful and fluffy and all the brains emotionally separated. If you follow those little techniques I showed you, once you relax three times, get a lot of starch.

Put a little bit of oil in the rice as well and coat that cocoa rice. Then add your water which is one and a half cups per cup of rice. Use high good quality rice, good quality basmati rice, you should get perfect rice every single time. Now just put some of this into a bowl. That's what we're going to do. We're going to serve this rice with some curry and for a beautiful, beautiful dinner.

People can help themselves. garnish your rice with some chopped chopped herbs if you want. Coriander, maybe some chop Hey not something like that. So there's our perfectly cooked basmati rice user rights Koko Garin follow the techniques I showed you guaranteed success every single time. Hope you enjoyed the video, and I'll speak to you soon Cheerio.