Brown rice should be soaked.
Brown rice has a high content of cellulose in the skin layer, and the texture is hard and rough, and it is not easy to cook, so it is best to soak brown rice for a few hours in advance before cooking, or soak it overnight.
2 Cooking brown rice how much water
Cooking brown rice, generally in accordance with the ratio of rice and water 1:1.5 to put water, such as cooking three cups of rice, put four and a half cups of water to cook rice can be; but if you use the brown rice and other such as white rice, barley, if you cook together, the amount of water can be a little bit more, according to the ratio of 1:1.7 or so to put water.
3 Brown rice soak in cool water or hot water
Brown rice soak in cool or warm water.
When you soak brown rice in cool water or warm water at around 40°C, the phytic acid contained in brown rice will be decomposed by itself, which prevents the human body from digesting and absorbing proteins, iron, calcium, and magnesium.
4 Cooking brown rice in hot or cold water
Cooking brown rice in hot water is better than in cold water.
The hot water we are talking about here is boiled water, which is used to cook brown rice, which can shorten the steaming time, make the loss of vitamins in the rice less, and simmer out the rice is more fragrant and soft, with a better taste and higher nutritional value.
Cold water to cook rice, it takes a certain amount of time to reach the boiling point, taking too long, the vitamins in the rice is easy to lose because of the high temperature heating, the human body to absorb the vitamins will naturally be reduced.