/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Turmeric.

>>13841237

Pick any number of recipes that use white rice rerard.

Also saffron

>>13841244
Anything not made for only the 1% rich?

>>13841237
soy sauce

>>13841237
Follow the instructions that came with your rice cooker.
>>13841253
Saffron isn't any more expensive than any other average spice.

>>13841237
toasted sesame oil
nước mắm
fry it with gochujang+oil

>>13841270
it's like $16 for a small jar with a few sticks in it at my store. I've never bought it because of the price

>>13841287
>a small jar with a few sticks in it
You're either thinking of vanilla beans or cinnamon.

>>13841237
mayonnaise

>>13841303

>>13841312
That's a shit ton of saffron. That would be like buying cumin by the pound.

Cook it in chicken stock bro

Simple as

>>13841322
I buy paprika by the pound

>>13841322
they don't even sell amounts that small on amazon

You eat is as a side with something else. Whom the fuck eats rice on its own?

>>13841336
The entirety of Asia

>>13841346
not true at all. rice is always eaten with other dishes that have more flavor

Sriracha.

>>13841237
Get better rice if you can. If you're just eating plain white rice, try getting jasmine or basmati rice, they both inherently have a lot more flavor. And brown rice also has more flavor and texture, but beware of brown rice having more arsenic, though apparently it's still within safe amounts, but it's probably better to simmer brown rice like you'd boil pasta and drain it to get rid of the extra arsenic.

>>13841357
now that people aren't all poor as fuck maybe

>>13841367
This anon is correct. The cheap rice is shit no matter what you do to it. Just get a nice jasmine or basmati and cook it with spices/salt/butter/etc.

>>13841336
I do.

Rice is like potatoes or pasta.
You eat it together with something more intensely flavoured or some sauce.

>>13841237
Furikake?

IGNORE THESE FUCKING IDIOTS

JUST COOK IT IN CHICKEN STOK BRO

Filipino Garlic rice.

>>13841389
>Rice is like potatoes or pasta.
>You eat it together with something more intensely flavoured or some sauce.
I eat potatoes on their own.... potatoes are delicious.

>>13841237
you can make a thin cream sauce with butter, heavy whipping cream, olive oil, and garlic. Id say a half cup of the cream, 4 tsp of butter, and as much garlic as you want to taste. Pour the olive oil in the pan first and pour barely any in or the sauce will look bad. You can toss in other spices, chives, or whatever else you might think would be good. I wouldn't eat it all in one sitting though thats a shit ton of carbs unless youre eating it with a meat like chicken breasts.

>>13841542
Unless use fat they are pretty bland.

>>13841551
Can you say that again in english? Even roasted potatoes are the bomb.

>>13841237
Roast chicken and potatoes with a lot of garlic and take the pan drippings + garlic and mix it with the rice

garlic salt

>>13841550
>>13841581
Based

I just want to post.

>>13841588
Not baste

>>13841237
Garlic powder in the water.

>>13841253

You took the the time ss Wikipedia but didn't take the time to figure out that 200mg of saffron was plenty for almost any dish and it costs about 15-20 a gram.

Once again, you're retarded

>>13841244
>Also saffron
based fucking retard

Use a Persian recipe with tahdig

>>13841270
>rice cooker
Anyone who owns one of these is incompetent.

>>13841634

Yeah saffron rice is completely retarded you are right

>>13841324
I'll pound your paprika

OP add cardamon pods and anise, olive oil, salt, and a small dab of butter
or a little stock and some black peppercorn
for plain rice just add some salt before you cook it

rice will absorb what you give it in subtle ways. you want to use that to add a note of flavor to a dish. usually you want to flavor your rice with a dish so add protein veg and herbs/spices to it

for rice as a side dish look at spanish rice, fried rice, or brocolli au gratin

>>13841237

>>13841323
>>13841512

literally all you need.

Gotta agree about the chicken stock. Hell, use a bullion cube if you don't make your own stocks.

Two versions of rice I like:

1. Finely diced onion and pepper bell, fry in the saucepan you are using for your rice together with the dry rice before you cook it.

2. Add whole cardamom and a cinnamon stick

>>13841237
Butter

>>13841673
agreed

>>13841237
Cinnamon and sugar

>>13841237
Make yourself some fried chili oil and eat it with the rice and soy sauce. All you need to do is fry some oil with garlic and shallots to flavor the oil, then pour the hot oil immediately onto dried chili flakes/chili powder with some green onions. If you're lazy, you can just buy pre-made chili oil like pic related. You can do this exact same recipe with egg noodles, which is even better.

Also, topping it all with >>13842207 would be great. I've never tried it that way but it seems fucking based.

>>13841237
Curry powder
Star anise
Butter
I've heard of adding a whole tomato to a rice cooker
Garlic

Or do a fried rice with all the bells and whistles.

>>13841322
I could totally use cumin by the pound. I use 2-3 tablespoons of it every time I cook mexican food

>>13842298
it is based. mix it with an over easy egg and some maagi sauce, delightful

>>13841237
I always add freshly chopped yellow onions with butter

Garlic, onion, cilantro

>>13841237
put it in the fridge after cooking it and forget about it for a week and then make fried rice with it

>>13841237
Salt and butter.

>>13842624
this, with some onions & eggs

>>13841237
BUTTER

>>13842624
what if you just used salted butter

Butter and salt is all you need

>>13842701
Nope doesn't work. You gotta sprinkle that salt on after you're done for the real taste.

>>13841237
Pour about a tablespoon of any oil into your nonstick (preferably meat grease) on medium low, chop up plenty of garlic and throw it in the oil, let the garlic get a little color but don’t burn it, dump your rice in and crank the heat up to a little over medium, fry the rice for a bit while stirring it with the garlic, add pepper, green onions, and just before you take it off throw in some soy sauce as well and give it one last stir. Feel free to add any other savory spices you want, can’t really go wrong. Bam you got garlic fried rice.

great as a Spanish rice kinda deal - I make it in my pressure cooker with that tomato pollo boullion cube and water and some salsa and fry it in a skillet after its done. I could eat it by the pound

>rice
>soy sauce
Haha why are Americans such fucking retards?

>>13841367
You can rinse brown rice before you cook it to clear it of arsenic

>>13841237
it's called not being an autistic faggot.

not every food needs to be EXPLODING with flavor and a million adjectives attributed to it. Rice tastes good on its own with a dash of Salt, jasmine especially so.
If you can't just cook up some rice and lightly salt it to achieve good flavor, then you need to start buying better rice.

>>13841639
or maybe I'd rather just have one less thing to worry about? I'd rather be able to just throw my rice and water in and walk away than to babysit a pot and take it off at the right moment. I got shit to do bitch

just slap a fried egg on top. that's pretty much 90% of your asian cuisine right there.

>>13842298
You people keep pushing that but pic related is far better. Thai basil, this stuff blows that chink shit right out.

>>13841237
Let it soak up the juices from your main dish, and use it as a filler.

>>13843560
Some good yellow rice does that pretty well.

>>13843582
Yes rice in general accomplishes this very well.

My fave topping for rice or dumplings...

>1/4 cup water
>1/4 cup soy
>1 tbsp vinegar
>1 tsp sugar
>1 tbsp ginger
>1 bunch green onion
>1 tbsp garlic
>1 tsp sesame oil

>>13841393
This, furikake was made to make rice better.

Also if you're not squeamish about it, try dropping a raw egg and some soy sauce in there, it's not as bad as you think

>>13841237
I get my 13 year old sister to squat over the rice and spray them in hot teenage urine. A full bladder right on the rice. Then it is drained of excess urine and served to the family.

Moses demands an offering of fresh urine.

do I need an egg when I make fried rice? I don't want to piss my brother off. all the eggs are technically his. the corona lockdown might give him an excuse to snap.

Add salsa, chicken breast cut up bite sized into rice. You can add parm cheese, or mozz.

>>13841237
cardamom

>>13841237
you're not supposed to. or, if you want a real answer, with the residue of the food that you momentarily place on top of it.

rice is meant to be a binder- it's the bland part of your dish to cut the intensity of eating the actual food. look how asians eat rice. you put a piece of veg or meat or whatever you have, put it on the rice for a sec and then eat a mouthful of both, or you take bites of rice in between the food bites. it's not supposed to be the yummy part it's just like the stabilizer

i'm having a hard time explaining this and i know i sound tetarded but my point is just that you don't worry about the rice tasting good in its own

>>13841324
hungarian?

>>13841324
makes sens since you need half a pound to get a lil bit of taste.
Food colorant tier

>>13841237
soy sauce and some form of fat

I read a VN where an evil twin living in the walls and basement of his family house mixed his semen in the rice every night, and the family ate it and they loved it

seseme oil

>>13844287
>>13844287
right. like bread in a western meal. its the easiest concept to get cause everyone does it. but westerners have trouble mapping their normal human practices onto other cultures, always thinking there is something exotic going on. potatos too. grits. you name it. just unconscious cultural bias. other peple arent normal