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What is the best way to reheat leftover rice? I keep ending up with extra rice, and I don’t
want to throw it out.
I understand the problem. It often gets dry and even grainy when you reheat it.
What can I do?
You could fry the rice. Or boil it to make rice pudding.
I’d like to reheat it and eat it in the same consistency as it was originally.
You can reheat it in the microwave, but you need to add water so that it doesn’t dry
out too much. Or put an ice cube in the middle of the bowl before covering it and nuking
it.
I’ve heard that you can reheat it on the stove.
You can do that, but at a very low temperature. Or even throw frozen leftover rice into a
stir-fry dish you are making on the stove.
That’s a neat idea. Can you put it in the oven to reheat along with all the other leftovers?
Cover it tightly with foil and heat for a few minutes at 400 degrees.
I’d like to use my rice cooker, if I can.
You can reheat rice with a rice cooker by putting it on the warm setting. Or mix old
rice into the new rice a few minutes before it is done, so that it reheats with the new
rice.
You can’t recycle rice too much that way.
Well, yeah, you don’t want to reheat the second batch in the third. But if you keep
having too much rice leftover, just make less next time.
Or throw it into any soups I’m making as a low cost filler.
There are jokes that people in the East grow up eating rice with whatever vegetables and
protein are added. Here in the West, we learn to throw rice into everything else to add
volume.
At least we’re not stuck living off rice and beans.