I've read about this on multiple platforms and just saw it on TV again, so I thought I would share this method with you. Scientists have proven that by simply cooking your rice with some coconut oil, it changes the rice's digestible starch to indigestible starch, which prevents much of the rice from being metabolized into glucose, cutting the calories by about 60%. That's huge! The only difference is, you must let it sit in the fridge before you eat it. Here's what you need:
Bring water to a boil in a pot. Add coconut oil and rice to pot. Cover, lower heat, and cook for 20 to 25 minutes. Let rice cool, then chill in the fridge for at least 12 hours. Reheat before serving.
Source: Many, many internet searches and TV shows.
Editor's Note: Here is an article with information about the scientific research.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/acs-nlr021915.php
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It is! I can't get enough of it. Thank you, editor, for adding that link. After all my reading, I had never come across that one. Good one!
Pretty easy to prepare and healthy too..thanking for sharing
I didn't think it was safe to reheat rice? I must do some research. If it's safe this is a good tip for me as rice is usually off the menu for me as I am diabetic. :)
I freeze my leftover rice and reheat all the time!
There are no issues with reheating rice. Asians do it all the time. In fact, it is recommended that you used refrigerated rice to make fried rice.
I believe the concern is when you don't refrigerate the rice. Bacteria can form at room temperature. Here is a informational page I found on it:
www.nhs.uk/
I always cook double and sometimes triple amounts of rice and freeze it for later use in zip lock freezer bags. It saves so much time on weeknights when I come home from work and want to get a quick dinner on the table.
I'm not sure, but I've been eating reheated rice all my life and I've never had any issues. :)
always cook rice in a rice cooker. can this be done
There's no reason why you can't use a rice cooker as long as the cooker cooks rice like one would do on the stove. That means cheap old fashion cookers that take about 20-25 mins to cook the rice. They use a simple temperature sensor to know when the water is absorbed and then turn off. More expensive cookers like those that use "fuzzy logic" often have a warm soaking stage to make better tasting rice, taking about 40-50 mins to cook rice. Some very advanced ones take more than an hour.
Similarly, a pressure cooker may not work. My electric pressure cooker makes the best rice possible and only takes 4 mins. But the shortened time and increased pressure may affect the way the coconut oil interacts with the rice. Again, it may still work but it's unproven.
Hi Barb! I haven't seen any articles (out of the hundreds I've gone through) that have instructions for a rice cooker method of this. If I come across one, I'll let you know.
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