The BEST Brown Rice
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As I have moved to trying to cook more healthy, one of the switches I made was to using brown rice instead of white rice. I always cooked brown rice on the stove, and it always seemed that the rice just didn’t quite get done. The rice seemed a bit crunchy sometimes and my family always noticed when I was using brown rice because of it.
Well…enter this recipe…baking brown rice in the oven! This rice turns out great every time and my family loves it. This is a great way to bake up a bunch of rice ahead of time and freeze it for later meals. Give it a try!
OVEN BROWN RICE
Place in a 4 Quart glass oven proof dish with lid (or cover with foil)
- 2 cups brown rice
- 5 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tablespoon butter or olive oil
Cover tightly. Bake at 400 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed. If you bake it early in the afternoon, you can just turn off the oven after 1 hour and let the dish stay in the oven until supper time. It turns out great every time and is very easy to clean up. If you freeze it, it is very easy to take out a few hours before you need it.
Now that you have an Instant Pot, you can make your brown rice in there! I use short grain brown rice and cook it for 29 minutes on manual, using a 1 cup rice to 1-1/4 cups water ratio. Perfect!
Brown rice is one of my next recipes to try! Thanks for the tips on how you do it. It sounds so easy too! I made sweet potatoes tonight to go with our dinner and they turned out so good! I am loving my Instant Pot!
Wonder if this technique would work for quinoa?
Hi Maggie! It looks like you can! I found this post that explains how to do it: https://laughingspatula.com/how-to-oven-bake-quinoa-white-and-brown-rice/. Yeah!
Cool! Will have to try it!
I always cook my rice (stove top) for 50 min, not 45. And make sure ur using a big enough pan also. AND don’t stir it at all. U will disturb all the little heat tunnels made in the rice as it cooks. Then it won’t cook right and be sticky besides.
I’ll just mention: u r using 2 cups liquid, 1 cup rice as the ratio, right? I have found no more than triple recipe works well. I try to do only 2x actually. That itself does make alotttt of rice!
One more tip–rice freezes well: if you don’t add any sauce or liquid w/it.