Download Cooking Brown Rice Gif. Cooking brown rice is easy and basic, but it takes a little more water and time than regular white rice. If you've ever cooked brown rice that turned out gummy, undercooked, or stuck to the bottom of the pan do you have to soak brown rice before cooking?
Because of the outer bran coating, more water and a longer cooking time is needed for brown rice.
If you don't cook with brown rice very often, storing it in the fridge will help keep it fresh. Cook brown rice on the white rice setting and you'll get better rice in nearly half the time. I've resisted switching from white rice to brown for a long time. You'll learn how to cook brown rice in the microwave and cut your cooking time from 50 minutes (stovetop) to 30 minutes in the microwave.