Everyone’s Favorite Rice
Everyone's Favorite Rice Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
What makes this recipe really really good?
The process is simple: I find that mixing the liquid, rice, oil, and salt in the beginning before bringing it all to a boil provides a more consistent flavor. It's also just really simple, and for me, this works.
Adding fat: The coconut oil adds a very appealing texture to the rice. It doesn't quite make it sweet, or super coconutty, but if you don’t like coconut, you can also do 50/50 coconut oil and butter. You can also swap the coconut oil for butter—or any oil you like. However, I still recommend coconut oil because I think it works the best.
Nutrient profile: This rice is more nutrient and mineral-dense because of the bone broth, salt, and coconut oil.
- Bone broth is extremely healthy and supports many things like bone and joint health, gut health, weight loss, and skin health—it's a staple in my house. It has vitamins A, B, K2, and minerals like zinc, iron, calcium, and selenium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, and sodium. It also contains protein, which can help build bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood. When cooked, the protein collagen turns into gelatin, which contains amino acids like glycine, glutamine, proline, and arginine I use Zoup's Beef Bone Broth because there are slightly fewer ingredients than a lot of other broths.
- Salt, or sodium is a mineral that is essential for many functions in the body, such as fluid balance, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction. Some salts have more mineral content than others. I use Redmond's Real Salt, which has more than 60 natural trace minerals. It lacks iodine, but you can get iodine from other sources such as seafood, dairy products, eggs, or supplements like Mary Ruth's Organic drops.
- Coconut oil and butter are healthy fats compared to oils like canola oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, grapeseed oil, and other seed oils. Though seed & vegetable oils are marketed for lowering cholesterol and being "healthy" they are high in linoleic acid. Some studies have found they increase your risk of heart disease and cause inflammation. Cholesterol is actually not the enemy when it comes to heart disease, but I won't get into all that in this rice post, I will save that for a later blog post. Personally, in our house, we only cook with butter, tallow, lard, coconut oil, and avocado oil.
Easy meal prep + resistance starch
I don't make rice every day, but when I do, I make 2 cups for the week and just reheat the is when desired.
This is great for 2 reasons.
- It's so quick and easy to reheat, making it perfect for busy individuals
- Reheating it after it's been cooled turns it into resistance starch
Resistance starch is my favorite kind of starch.
It supports a healthy gut biome and reduces the glycemic index of some foods.
Resistant starch can also improve the body's responsiveness to insulin, and it promotes weight loss by boosting thermogenesis, which is the rate at which your body burns calories. It also increases the production of satiety peptides, which helps you feel fuller for longer.
So I enjoy my fresh rice on the first day, but after that, it's resistance starch until it's gone.
To reheat it throughout the week, I throw as much rice as I want in a frying pan or pot with a little more bone broth and coconut oil and cook until it's heated and absorbed.
