Lesson 1: Cooking Rice

How to cook rice

If you use the local white rice like the ones produced by Bernas, Jati, Jasmine, etc, cook 1 cup of rice with 1 1/3 cup of water, to have a nice texture, not too soft and not too hard. And the leftovers, when you make nasi goreng, will give a very nice result and of course with the right ingredient.

If you use the Siamese rice, use 1:1 rice and water. Because the rice is very starchy, too much water will make it too soft.

For those who take brown rice or mix grain occassionally, cook 1 portion of rice to 2 1/2 portions of water.