what can i do with rice to give it some taste?

Question

plain rice is kind of icky and i don't really have a lot of ingredients or any kind of spices at all to make it taste better.

Answer 1

Saute the rice in butter until lightly browned before adding your liquid.

Add half water, half any other liquid, depending on what you are serving it with.

Add assorted seasonings such as garlic, onion, cumin, oregano, basil. Anything you like. If it is the powder form, add it at the beginning of the cooking process. If you are using fresh, saute garlic and onion in butter at the beginning of the cooking process and fresh herbs, just stir in toward the end of the process.

Add a tablespoon of sugar per four servings of rice (add to the boiling water, before you add the rice) and sprinkle with rice wine vinegar when it's done and still warm. Tastes like sushi rice and is very good!

Top it with anything you like. Toasted sesame seeds, crumbled nori, toasted slivered almonds, herbed butter slices.

You control what goes in the rice, so just experiment until you find the combination you like. Rice is cheap, so if you make small batches to 'play' with and then don't like it, you can just throw it in the yard for the birds or squirrels or rats (depending on region) and start over with something else.

~Morg~

Answer 2

I just gave this recipe to a woman a couople days ago and she loved it.
Take plain white rice and when you're boiling the water add some tomato paste and garlic salt and onion powder- if you wanna get fancy you can add some frozen veggies I like the onion and pepper mix but regular like frozen peas and green beans is good too. If you add some leftover meat (of any kind really) you have what my boyfriend and I call ghetto mexican stir fry and that's good too! I'm poor so most of my recipes are super easy with just a few cheap ingredients.

Answer 3

You can try a couple of things. First, try a different rice like Jasmine, or cook your rice in chicken or beef broth other than water. You could even cut up an onion and put it in the pan with the stock and rice and it will cook up tender and flavorful. Have some fun trying out new things. Sometimes you want or need to have the rice 'bland' not to overpower the meat sauce or whatever it is you are serving with it; like sweet and sour meat or chicken, for example. But, other than that try my suggestions. I think you will enjoy your rice experience more!!

Answer 4

Yeah, boiling it in broth is the best thing. Other ideas are: add lemon or lime zest; finely dice some onions and cook them over low heat until transparent - then add your rice and cook; try adding a flavoring packet like taco seasoning, good seasonings salad dressing mix, or Sazon by Goya. But a little bit of butter and salt and pepper will go a long, long way.

Answer 5

The easiest way to add flavor to rice is to throw a vegetable buillion cube in the water while your cooking it or cook it in vegetable broth. I am a vegetarian but if your not you could use chicken stock instead. For rice that has already been cooked, just throw a little soy sauce or teriyaki on it and eat it up. It's not the most elegant thing ever but it tastes good!

Answer 6

Saute some chopped onion in butter in the pan you are going to cook the rice in. When the onion is sauteed, add your rice and saute ever so slightly. Then add chicken or beef broth instead of water (measure out the broth just as you would the water - example. if you are to add 2 cups of water, you would instead add two cups of broth). Cook time per rice instructions - and va la - you have a simple rice pilaf.

Answer 7

1) Boil rice in canned broth instead of water.
2) Add a slice or two of American (single-slice) cheese into the water with the rice. When the rice absorbs the water, the rice will be left cheesy.

Answer 8

add some hot sauce if possible than it will taste good.

also if you put butter on it it tastes better than regular rice but you have to melt the butter and not just regular butter.

Answer 9

you can put salt and butter in it, cream of chicken soup, brown gravy,sugar is also good in rice, you can boil it in chicken broth that gives it good flavor

Answer 10

boil your rice in chicken broth/stock, butter and parsley flakes... Keep it simple.