Jasmine Rice in the Microwave

Quick and easy and no need to boil water on the stove top. Here are your step by step instructions. Jasmine rice microwave instructions below.

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup of Jasmine Rice
  • 1 ½ Cups of Water

Instructions

  1. Add the rice to the perforated-bowl.
  2. Rinse under cold water 3-4 times, then let it drain.
  3. Add the perforated-bowl with rice in it, back into the rice cooker.
  4. Add the water over the top and cover with a lid.
  5. Cook in the microwave 5 minutes on high.
  6. Stir the rice and cover, reduce the power to 50% and cook for 10 minutes.
  7. Allow the rice to sit for 3-4 minutes after the microwave stops, this will help absorb any excess moisture.
  8. Taste the rice if you want/need it to cook for 1-2 minutes longer, you can.
  9. Rice should be light and fluffy

Watch How To Make It

See transcript below

When cooking rice, there’s all different ways that you can make it. What I’m going to show you today is how to cook  it in the microwave. Usually when I cook, I often have my four burners going on my stove and I just never really have room or time to cook the rice unless I was making a big batch. Then I would  dedicate one of those bigger pots to it.

Today there’s only two of us in the house and I don’t feel like setting up a pan and boiling it off so I bought this nice little rice cooker that you put in the microwave. I bought it online and it was quite inexpensive.

It actually makes up to eight cups of rice, so when you open the lid there’s a little measuring cup that they give you in this basket. You can see the basket is perforated so it allows you to rinse your rice in the sink and drain it and then actually add your water.

A misconception when cooking rice is that everybody thinks the standard ratio is one to two, but it really depends on the grain of rice you’re cooking.

I have some jasmine rice here and the ratio I use is one cup rice to only one-and-a-half cups of water. Not the 1 to 2 ratio. Since there’s only two of us, I’m only going to make one cup of rice, because remember, it expands double its size. It’ll actually make 2 cups when fully cooked for only one cup of dry rice.

Then we’re gonna stick it in the microwave for 5 minutes on high, 10 minutes on 50% power level and then another 3 minutes after that. Then you let it sit for five minutes.

Let’s make the rice

Once you put in the rice, then put in your water you actually attach the spoon right back to it and it clicks in and it holds your cover. It has the vents on the top here so that your rice breathes a little bit but not over the point where it’s gonna boil over.

First, we are going to take the dry rice out of the bucket and bring it over to the faucet. We are going to rinse it and as you’re rinsing it, take it between your fingers as you’re rinsing it and just rub it around. This will help take all of that starchiness off of the grains. Once you rinse it about three or four times, go ahead and let it drain and then stick it back in your pot.

Now that we have rinsed rice, you can see as you pick it up some of them almost look translucent and that’s because we rinsed off a lot of the starch that really gets on the capsules at the outside of the grain. One and a half cups of water now goes in. Close it just like that, attach the spoon and there’s nothing else to do now.

You’re basically gonna put it in the microwave for five minutes on high power. Once the microwave goes off, go ahead and reduce your power level to 50% and then cook it for 10 minutes. If need be, then go ahead and put it on for a few more minutes after that.

You want  to make sure you taste a couple pieces. I would say it doesn’t need to go on for the additional three minutes because I’m usually cooking more rice than  this but I am gonna go ahead and let it cover  and sit in steam for about two minutes before I start working with it. This will allow any excess moisture to get fully absorbed and then we’ll be ready to go.

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