Siam Cafe
3951 Saint Clair
Cleveland OH 44114

Recipe for Cooking Rice in the microwave oven

Ingredients:

Rice as per your need
Water, twice the amount of the rice and a little more
A few typical examples would be
½ cup rice & 1 cup + 2 tbsp water
¾ cup rice & 1 ¾ water
1 cup rice & 2 ¼ cups water
1 ½ cups rice & 3 ½ cups water

method

1. Take a glass (e.g. Pyrex) container. cooking in porcelain/ceramic and plastic containers does not give satisfactory results, although they are microwave-friendly and can be used successfully for reheating food.
2. Take the required amount of rice in it and wash it a couple of times. Let's not forget that washing rice more often results in loss of important nutrients.
3. Add the appropriate amount of water to the rice.
4. Place the vessel with rice and water in the centre of the microwave now. Set the time. This can vary for different microwaves with different power. Below are the times rice takes to cook in my microwave with 700Watt.
   ½ cup rice 9 minutes
   ¾ cup rice 12 minutes
   1 cup rice 16 minutes
   1¼ cups rice 20 minutes
   1½ cups rice 23 minutes
   Please note that rice will take less time, if your microwave has higher wattage and vice versa.
5. Once the rice is cooked, leave the rice in the microwave for another five minutes for it to stand. Make sure that the microwave is turned off then. The standing time allows the rice to cook to its optimum. Once it has stood well, the rice grains will look pretty as they will be in a 'standing' position.
6. If you don't have a rice cooker, or you just want to cook a small amount of rice this is a easy way to do it.