How to Cook Brown Rice

Please read this entire page and plan out your cooking method before starting.

Ingredients/Requirements

  1. 2 cups short grain brown rice
  2. 3 cups drinking water
  3. pinch of sea salt
  4. stainless steel pressure cooker
  5. simmer plate
  6. gas stove

Cooking Instructions

  1. Place 2 cups of short grain brown rice into pressure cooker. No need to wash the rice.
  2. Add 3 cups of drinking water.
  3. Add a pinch of sea salt.
  4. Seal the pressure cooker and place on high flame.
  5. At the same time, begin heating the simmer plate on a separate burner on low/medium flame. Closer to low than medium.
  6. If the cooker has a safety button, the pressure will push up on that first (a small cylindrical button about 1cm in diameter). If it looks like it is stuck, you may have to wiggle it with a chop stick so that it goes straight up and seals tight with no steam coming from it. A minute or so after that, steam should start coming out of the main center pressure valve. Once this happens and the pressure noise gets kinda loud (should be within the first minute of when that valve begins to steam), turn off the flame under the pressure cooker and move the cooker to the simmer plate with the flame remaining on low/medium.
  7. Wait 45 minutes. The pressure should be heard steadily coming from the pressure valve. If it ever goes completely quiet, then the flame is too low, so increase it slightly. If it is consistently too loud, then decrease the flame. The goal is to have the flame as low as possible while still keeping the steam flowing out.
  8. Turn off flame after 45 minutes under the simmer plate and allow to cool on its own. Once the safety valve goes down, then it is safe to open. This typically takes around 10-15 minutes after the flame is turned off.
  9. Enjoy.
Excellent condiments are: