How To Defrost Frozen Rice So It's Plump and Delicious

Name: How To Defrost Frozen Rice So It's Plump and Delicious
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 200 grams Frozen rice; 1 Water

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The main carbohydrate of a meal can be noodles or bread or okonomiyaki and so on - it's not always rice, so it's a bother to cook it each time. Therefore I freeze it instead. But I wondered why frozen rice always tasted worse, and tried out various techniques to make it taste better. In the end, a simple method did the trick.

To re-heat 100 g of rice: In Step 3 microwave for 1 minute; in Step 5 for 1 to 1.5 minutes (or adjust the temperature to 70°C).
To reheat 300 g of rice: In Step 3 microwave for 3 minutes; in Step 5 microwave for 3 to 3.5 minutes (or adjust the temperature to 70°C).
Please keep an eye on the state of the rice while microwaving. Recipe by Yorozumame

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Ingredients

2 servings

200 gramsFrozen rice
1Water

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Steps

1

Take the frozen rice out of the freezer.
2

Put the frozen rice in a heatproof container, sprinkle some water over it, and then throw out the water that pools in the bottom of the container.
3

Cover the container with plastic wrap and microwave at 600 W for 2 minutes. (I used a microwave lid in the photo.)
4

Take the rice out of the microwave after it's been heated, and crumble up any lumps with a spoon.
5

Re-cover with plastic wrap and microwave at 600 W for another 2 minutes. (If you can adjust the temperature on your microwave, set it to 70°C.)
6

The rice is nice and plump just as it was before being frozen. (I used 16-grain rice in the photo. You can reheat plain white rice in the same way.)
7

When freezing rice, wrap up small portions in plastic as soon as it's cooked and let it cool down a bit before freezing. This way the rice will be tastier when defrosted.