So you’ve stashed hundreds of pounds of rice and beans in preparation for this apocalypse, now you’ve got to eat it.  

…shit.

Hopefully you stored the slightly less long-lasting, but decidedly more nutritious brown rice.  If you did, you’re going to need a good recipe to cook that stuff up, and let me tell you, the internet and cookbooks the world over are full of really, really bad recipes for brown rice.  Most of those recipes claim to be the perfect recipe, and in my experience, none of them even come close.  Rice cookers can do a good job, but, if you don’t own, or can’t operate a rice cooker that has a brown rice setting you’re going to need an alternate strategy. 

Over the years I’ve tried dozens and dozens of different recipes for brown rice, and until now I was sorely disappointed with every one.  It either came out soggy and mushy, or burnt, or undercooked or bland, or worse the recipe had you boiling it in large amounts of water that you drain off along with many of the vitamins and minerals the rice would otherwise contain.  Many of the recipes were just too complicated and time consuming.  But I’ve finally found a good one.

So, without further ado, here it is, a recipe that is easy, doesn’t drain off the vitamins, and produces good, slightly chewy, never mushy, nicely cooked brown rice EVERY TIME!

Recipe for Perfect Brown Rice:

• Get a small casserole dish with a lid (8 or 9″ dish).  If you don’t have a lid you can cover it tightly with foil once you’ve loaded the ingredients.
• Add 1.5 cups long grain brown rice.
• Add a pinch of salt
• Add a splash (teaspoon or two) of olive oil.
• Preheat the oven to 375F (190C)
• In a separate container boil 2 1/3 cups water.  (It’s important to boil the water before it goes in with the rice.)
• Add the freshly boiled water to the rice, immediately cover and place in the oven.
• Bake for one hour.  Then let stand covered for 5 minutes after removing from the oven.  Fluff with a fork and feast.

P.S. If you want to make it even a hair nicer just rinse the rice first, but that’s just getting picky and anal in my opinion.

Cheers!