How to Reheat Rice

Many Dream Dinners meals include Jasmine or white rice as a side dish. Some stores offer brown rice if you ask for it. One of the challenges I have with rice is that it tends to dry out when I store cooked rice in the fridge. It will dry out even more when I put it in the microwave, so instead of nice semi-mushy rice I get crispy rice. A trick I learned to avoid creating crispy rice is to place a moistened paper towel over my rice before microwaving. I thought it was just a random trick I learned in college, but apparently it’s a recommended rice-reheating practice. For those of you who don’t believe me, or who can’t envision this process, there’s a video showing a moistened-paper towel, rice-reheating process on chow.com. They tout this as providing a ‘steam bath’ for your rice and claim it works on pasta as well!

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