h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Usually rice is just boiled. It often ends up tasting of virtually nothing. Which isn't always a bad thing. But you can make rice taste of... well... rice! (there's a revelation!)

All you need to do is add a small pinch of salt, and a small pinch of chilli/mustard powder when cooking the rice.

When you eat the rice, you should not be able to taste the spice. But the heat of the spice will make your mouth water more, allowing you to taste the rice 'more effectively'.

The results of some random experimentation:

Add some lemongrass and a couple of strands of saffron for delicately flavoured rice that goes well with Thai dishes.

Add turmeric (mainly for colour so you don't need tons) a bay leaf, a blade of mace, and a couple of cloves for rice that is good with indian food.

I am sure I have added other things in my time so I will trawl the memory banks and see if I can come up with any more...

k who always ends up contributing to the food ones...

To make the ultimate rice - chuck in a cinnamon stick when you boil the water and keep it in there when boiling the rice.
If you boil it for long enough (which I did by mistake once), it turns pink.
But it does spice the rice nice.

You can also try cooking rice by the absorbtion method using a tin of tomatoes to make up most of the liquid.

Then serve with lots of grated cheese. Cheap student comfort food

This is on the front page today, there should probably be a link...

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