How To Cook Black Rice Rice Cooker

With a snug fitting lid you need to tightly cover the cooker and lower down the heat.

How to cook black rice rice cooker. Allow the black rice to boil for about 20 minutes and then check the colour and softness of the rice. Otherwise set the timer to 25 minutes. Rinse out the rice a couple of times.

The standard straight 2 waters for every one unit of rice i do this for all rice types as i like a. Resist the urge to open the lid too often to check on the rice because this will let a lot of steam out. Over medium high heat bring the water to a boil.

In a small pot put in 1 cup of black rice. You do this by pouring in water enough to cover the rice swirling the rice water with your hand then pouring out the water. Now place the rice cooker on a boiler placing it at high heat.

As we mentioned modern rice cookers now have specific settings that can cook specific food items. If your cooker has a brown rice setting feel free to use it as the command is designed to cook the rice perfectly. Alternately if your rice cooker has a brown rice setting you can use that since both brown rice and black rice have intact hulls and require similar cooking times.

A standard time for black rice to cook is 20 to 30 minutes similar to brown rice. Cook it dark black rice should typically be cooked for up to 40 minutes or just until most of the liquid has been absorbed. If your rice cooker has a brown rice mode start it.

If your rice cooker has a removable cooking pot place the pot of rice and water back into the rice cooker. The switch will click like a toaster when the rice is done. To cook black rice using the absorption method add water and rinsed black rice to a saucepan.