Overcooked Rice

[SheilaAnn]

I mentioned in SUWYC that I jacked up the rice (instant pot) yesterday. I scaled up and should have reduced the water. Now I have mushy jasmine rice.

what the heck do I do with it? I don’t think using it for sushi rice will work because don’t you have to add even more liquid? I was thinking maybe a soup?

[Ace]

Yes... soup.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

the fix for all things overcooked!

[ecowper]

Is it too mushy to dry out over a day or two and then make fried rice?

[barelfly]

This is my thought… let it sit in the fridge and fried rice!!!

[SheilaAnn]

Brilliant!!!!

[RonB]

I like chicken and rice soup as well as chicken noodle soup.

[Steve B]

It’s rice. It’s not a $40-60 hunk ‘o meat. For me, if I wasn’t using it the same day, it would find its way into the round or square filling bin.

[TomfromtheSoo]

Throw it out was my first thought. Come to think about it, its my second third and fourth thought. Throw it out.

[Duanessmokedmeats]

I see you don't own dogs...

[Donw]

Always the possibility of food poisoning from Bacillus cereus. I always throw out cooked rice after 2 days. Just my 2¢

[MBMorgan]

Excellent advice! Worth a lot more than just 2 cents.
+1000

[Cryptidbbq]

Congee! Throw it in some broth and continue cooking until the hulks bust and the rice thickens into porridge. It’s delicious! I recently posted my bone marrow congee on that thread.

[SheilaAnn]

You did and the now I remember. But I think the husks have already broken.

[shify]

Are you sure you measured right? In an instant pot there should be no scaling necessary as there would be no evaporation and that’s why you would scale (the same quantity of water will steam/evaporate off regardless of how much rice you cook). I always use the same ratio of water to rice in my instant pot (235 g rice to 290 g water for calrose rice)

as far as what to do with mushy rice, either congee or a chicken and rice soup would make good use of the rice

[jfmorris]

I'll second using a 1:1 ratio of rice to water in the instant pot.

[SheilaAnn]

3 c. Rice to 3 c. Water

[jfmorris]

I'm in the toss the rice due to health concerns after 2 days. And use a 1:1 ratio in the instant pot is what I have learned over the past several years.

[ecowper]

I’m unclear on what the health concerns are after 2 days if the rice is kept cold and outside the food danger zone

[jfmorris]

ecowper if chilled quickly, sure. But reheated and made into something else as leftovers adds to the time outside the danger zone. Considering how cheap rice is, ounce for ounce, its not a big deal to pour another cup or two into the instant pot or rice cooker and wait 15 minutes...

[Carolyn]

I don't think I have considered how long I keep rice, but I rarely make enough for it to hang around very long. I guess I need to make sure I am only keeping it a couple of days.
I did make a bunch recently because I had to put one of my dogs on a bland diet for about a week.

[58limited]

Rice pudding

[CaptainMike]

As Jonathan Winters once said in a Hefty Bags ad "Nasty Garbahge"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK6AG-BpWOQ