Famous Butter Rice Recipe - Lauren's Latest (2024)

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Why is buttered rice so good? ›

How butter enhances rice. Only good things come when cooking with butter, and that goes for rice too. Depending on what type of butter you use, the rice may take on characteristics of tangy, salty, and sweet notes, per Taste of Home, but overall, the rice will be enhanced with rich and buttery flavors.

In the same way toasting nuts deepens their flavor, toasting rice in a little bit of oil or butter before cooking it in liquid adds a warm, toasty flavor to plain rice. The addition of butter or oil adds even more richness.

Ina Garten loves Texmati rice

I use brown basmati rice, white basmati rice, arborio rice, and couscous. I just find the flavor fantastic."

Basics of Cooking Rice

Combine 1 cup rice, liquid (see chart below), 1 teaspoon salt (optional), and 1 tablespoon butter or margarine (optional) in a 2 to 3-quart saucepan. Heat to boiling; stir once or twice as it begins to boil. Lower heat to a simmer; cover with a tight-fitting lid.

Studies show this is a healthier way to cook rice. Cooking rice with a small amount of healthy oil (like Olive Oil), then cooled overnight in the fridge and then reheated, decreased rice calories and increased resistant starch. This may help promote healthier body weight and blood sugar levels.

For tender grains of rice that easily separate, such as in a pilaf, use 2 cups of water for every 1 cup of rice. You can also use another liquid like stock in this 2:1 ratio. For slightly chewier, fluffy white rice, use 1 1/2 cups of water for every cup of rice, or a 1.5:1 ratio.

When Ramsay is cooking rice, he likes to use whole cardamon pods which he pierces to get the full effect of their spicy and sweet taste along with star anise seeds for their aromatic properties as well as the flavor. Additionally, he uses black pepper and salt.

Place a medium-sized saucepan over medium-high heat with the chicken stock. Bring to a boil, add rice and bay leaf, and stir. When stock returns to a boil, cover and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook 18 minutes, until rice is tender.

Use Fresh Herbs and Chicken Stock

Next, add chicken stock instead of salted water and let the rice boil on high heat for two minutes. Then, lower the heat and allow the rice to steam. “The rice will smell so fragrant from the thyme and garlic, with the thyme enhancing the flavor to another level,” he says.

Cook without peeking or stirring.

Cook until the water is absorbed, about 18 minutes. Try not to peek until the end of the cooking time so the steam doesn't escape. Whatever you do, don't mix the rice while it's cooking — this will lead to gummy rice.

Is it okay to eat rice with butter? ›

Sure! If you like the taste of butter, buttered rice id delicious. I have a niece, who for years while growing up, her favorite food was steamed white rice with an enormous amount of butter. She turned out just fine.

Butter Makes Your Fried Rice Taste Richer But Also Increases Fat Content. Since cooking with butter infuses food with a richer flavor and texture in general, you might find that frying leftover rice in oil leaves it bland in comparison.

Perhaps the most straightforward food on this list, butter rice is also a famous dish. It's so popular that the Japanese Netflix series, Midnight Diner, featured it in its fifth episode.

Rice also became prominent in many dishes in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina due to the fact that the enslaved people who settled the region (now known as the Gullah people), were already quite familiar with the crop. Many Southern foodways are local adaptations of Old World traditions.