Cheap Recipe: Never-Mushy Homemade Rice

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The fluffliest and tastiest rice I’ve ever had!

This is the wonderful rice recipe I was raised on. Both of my parents make this all the time, and while I rarely eat rice anywhere else, I can eat my weight in the stuff at their house.

(In fact, I remember how disappointed I was the first time I ordered rice at a restaurant after being spoiled by this delicious version at home my whole childhood.)

This recipe is so simple I questioned whether or not it even deserved to be a

Melt butter over medium heat.

 post of its own, but I finally decided to go ahead with it after Hubby started commenting on how good the rice was during dinner the same night. I decided that was an omen.

And so, without further delay, I give you Never-Mushy Homemade Rice.

Add dry rice, dehydrated onions and salt.

Place 3 Tbs. butter or margarine in the bottom of a large saucepan and set burner heat to MEDIUM.

Let rice brown until desired "speckling" appears.

Measure 1-1/2 cups dry, white, long-grain rice and dump over the melting butter.

Add 1/4 cup dehydrated minced onion flakes and 1 teaspoon salt. Stir all ingredients over burner heat for 10-15 minutes, or until brown flecks begin to appear here and there in the rice.

Once rice mixture has many different shades of brown speckled here and there, add 3-1/2 cups water and cover saucepan.

Add water and cover immediately.

Cook over medium heat for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until rice is mostly tender.

 

Remove from heat and keep covered until all liquid has been absorbed into mixture and rice has completely tenderized.

So fluffy and yummy!

 

Enjoy with soy sauce or underneath another recipe. You won’t believe how “non-mushy” your homemade rice is, or how much flavor is bursting from something so simple!