{"id":859,"date":"2010-08-08T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=859"},"modified":"2024-07-24T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:15:46","slug":"how-to-make-the-best-brown-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/how-to-make-the-best-brown-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make the Best Brown Rice . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color:#008000;\">. . .\u00a0 and Be a Green Cook at the Same Time<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\"> A Bits and Pieces Cooking      Tip: <\/span>Use the cooking water from slow cooker beans to cook brown rice.\u00a0 Earlier posts have described <a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/how-to-cook-dried-beans-stovetop-slow-cooker-pressure-cooker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the benefits and how-tos for making slow cooker beans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/accelerated-slow-cooker-beans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to accelerate the process<\/a> if the slow cooker is too slow for your circumstances.\u00a0 Now there&#8217;s another advantage to cooking beans this way.\u00a0 The cooking water can be used to cook brown rice, making it really tasty.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>This simple trick saves water, a good      thing in an increasingly water-constrained world<\/li>\n<li>It also saves nutrients.\u00a0 No need to send them down the drain.<\/li>\n<li>Finally it saves time and      hassle.\u00a0 Pour bean water into a      quart jar, then store in the frig so it&#8217;s pre-measured and ready to go      when you&#8217;re hurrying to get a pot of rice cooking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/Brown_Rice_Red_Bowl-Brightened.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cooking water for this rice began by boiling some carrot and onion tops too  tough to cook.  Then some pork chop bones were added.  The resulting  broth was used to cook pasta, a &quot;bits and pieces&quot; cooking tip from Eugenia Bone.  After  cooking the pasta, I saved the water for one more  use:  cooking this rice, which came out almost like a risotto, since the cooking water was so rich by this time. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\">Pasta water works, too. <\/span>Good chefs often use pasta water in their sauces with delicious results.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, cooking rice in leftover pasta water yields very delicious results.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the rice ends up tasting a lot like the pasta we all love.\u00a0 Some tips:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>When draining the pasta, I      pour off the top portion, saving\u00a0 just two quarts from the bottom of the      pot, where all the pasta &#8220;dust&#8221; packed with pasta flavor settles.<\/li>\n<li>If you salt your pasta water      (which is a good idea) be sure to adjust the amount of salt you add to the      rice before cooking.\u00a0 In fact, you      may not need any additional salt beyond what&#8217;s in the pasta water.\u00a0 Taste a spoonful to see.<\/li>\n<li>Gluten free?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 This trick works with brown rice pasta,      too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how tempting whole grains can be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think brown rice doesn&#8217;t taste as good as white?  Try these flavor-boosting tricks and you&#8217;ll be loving your whole grains.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,9,24,1,28],"tags":[83,306,434,511,565,628,650],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-cooking-basics","category-recipes","category-green-kitchen","category-basic-healthy-cooking-techniques","category-uncategorized","category-waste-not-want-not","tag-brown-rice","tag-how-to-cook-brown-rice","tag-pasta-water","tag-saving-water","tag-sustainable-cooking","tag-water","tag-whole-grains","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}