Foolproof Oven-Baked Brown Rice

Name: Foolproof Oven-Baked Brown Rice
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups, long-grain brown rice, medium-grain brown rice, or short-grain brown rice; 2 1/3 cups, water; 2 teaspoons, unsalted butter or vegetable oil; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2004

Side Dishes

Rice

Vegetarian

Forget the instructions on the back of the bag, unless you want scorched or mushy rice.

SERVES4 to 6

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our brown rice recipe, we cooked the rice in the oven to approximate the controlled, indirect heat of a rice cooker, eliminating the risk of scorching. Experimenting with proportions, we discovered why most brown rice is sodden and over...

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