Cooking rice

[Fridge]

How is rice cooked in india?

In a rice cooker
OR
In a pot with the double amount of water till all the water cooks up
OR
In a pot with lots of water and then drain the water out when it is cooked

[kugan98]

To my knowledge, rice is cooked in rice cookers or pressure
cookers in morden homes.
Even the boiled rice is cooked in pressure cookers.
In the villages they still practise the method of cooking with lots
of water and later draining the water when the rice is cooked.

I might be wrong, but this is what i observed in India.

[Fridge]

I grew up cooking rice in a pot and draining it. my family still does it this way. In most recipes they suggest using the exact amount of water and cooking on low heat till all the water is absorbed.
I only learnt of a rice cooker from other asian friends in europe. Now I have one, but I wa wondering which method is heathy

[Anoushka]

Fridge: my mother cooks rice the way you do - with plenty of water... I use the rice cooker :)

[Fridge]

Which medthod is the healthy one.
Am I losing any important stuff when I drain out the water.

[sarna_blr]

Which medthod is the healthy one.
Am I losing any important stuff when I drain out the water.

I think/guess that Rice is itself misses an important stuff... I mean the red coloured stuff in between the rice and the cover ( umikkum arisikkum naduvula irukkura saththu porul) .... well-known hubbers can enlighten :)

[pavalamani pragasam]

Pressure cooker retains nutrients fully. Easy, hassle-free method too! What sarna means is the loss of nutrients in 'polishing' rice in modern rice mills as in practice now.

[Fridge]

Thanks for the responses guys.

Times do change. I remember when I was younger I was very facinated by an older cousin who had just married and had washed the rice so many times and then boiled a bit and drained and said that she was getting rid of all the starch, I then thought that is was soo healthy.

[Shoba]

I started cooking rice the straining way as of 2 years ago. Prior to that it was the pressure cooker. I found that 1C raw rice yielded lesser cooked rice in a pressure cooker (and therefore we ate more) than the draining method. I think the pressure packs the rice and starch where as in the draining method the starch is drained away and the rice left behind is fluffy.

Polished rice already has lost quite a bit of nutrition. And...in our modern day life, we dont need so much starch for energy production.

Just my take on this :)

[sandy8]

Hello Friends.
Rice in India is basic food and prepared with different methods in different parts of the world. The common options are pressure cooker, electric cooker and pot. Once on TV, I watched some people preparing rice in bamboo but that was out of India. Anyway, I like different delicious rice dishes.