Brilio.net - Rice is still the staple food of Indonesian people. There is even the saying 'you haven't eaten if you haven't eaten rice'. Yup, whatever the food, a portion of rice is always there to accompany it.
In Indonesia, white and red rice are often the choices. However, white rice is definitely a favorite. Unfortunately, when the price of rice is soaring, people are unable to get good quality of this staple food.
As a result, to still be able to eat rice, some people choose to buy low quality rice. Unfortunately, when cooked, this low quality rice tends to not be fluffier and even looks mottled. Wow, I don't have an appetite, do I?
So, so that the rice remains fluffier and not grainy even if you use low quality rice, some people also try to add several ingredients, such as cooking oil. Adding cooking oil can make the rice fluffier, you know.
But actually, there is a healthier way without just using cooking oil . The resulting rice remains fluffier and whiter. This additional material was shared by TikTok user meilin.dwichan. What's more interesting is that this additional ingredient not only makes the rice whiter and fluffier, but also makes it even tastier, you know.
Tricks for cooking low quality rice so that it remains fluffy and crystalline.
As reported by BrilioFood from the TikTok account @meilin.dwichan on Thursday (28/3), he added lime juice so that the rice would be fluffier and have a cleaner color.
photo: Tiktok/meilin.dwichan
To do this, prepare several cups of rice. Then wash it clean and put the rice in the rice cooker pan. If so, add a piece of lime juice to it.
Next, boil water according to the amount of rice. Pour in the water slowly and don't forget to stir well. If so, close the rice cooker and cook the rice until cooked. And sure enough, the rice looked very fluffy and like crystals.
photo: Tiktok/meilin.dwichan
How about it, it's quite easy, isn't it? If you are interested, try this method. The reason is, the additional ingredients are easy to get, the method is easy to imitate.