Seasoning for rice

[AmmoCan88]

I stock a lot of rice, primarily parboiled and yasmin rice, mostly because of its indefinite shelf life and how easy and fast it is to cook. But just gnawing on rice alone can be a bit tough...

So do anyone know some good ways to season rice? Preferably something that's extremely compact with very long shelf life and very simple to prepare...

I got...

- Soy sauce; easy, tasty, but can take up unnecessary space since it's (usually) not dehydrated.
- Frying spices with cooking oil; a little extra work for great taste and a wide range of variations available, and the oil provides extra calories, but has relatively short shelf life (quality-wise, not safety-wise).
- Bouillon cubes/granules; can be cooked with the rice, very compact and decent taste, and should have quite a long shelf life (safety-wise) given it's high salt contents.

 

[jimLE]

i enjoy cooking butter into it.then put sugar on top of what i put onto my plate.

 

[Brent S]

I stock a lot of rice, primarily parboiled and yasmin rice, mostly because of it's indefinite shelf life and how easy and fast it is to cook. But just gnawing on rice alone can be a bit tough...

So do anyone know some good ways to season rice? Preferably something that's extremely compact with very long shelf life and very simple to prepare...

I got...

- Soy sauce; easy, tasty, but can take up unnecessary space since it's (usually) not dehydrated.
- Frying spices with cooking oil; a little extra work for great taste and a wide range of variations available, and the oil provides extra calories, but has relatively short shelf life (quality-wise, not safety-wise).
- Bouillon cubes/granules; can be cooked with the rice, very compact and decent taste, and should have quite a long shelf life (safety-wise) given it's high salt contents.

All my rice is cooked in chicken, beef or turkey broth. I season in addition to that but the broth is a really good start. I keep three cases of each flavor of the broths in the pantry all the time.

 

[Brent S]

i enjoy cooking butter into it.then put sugar on top of what i put onto my plate.

I’ve never used sugar on it before. Might be good....

 

[jimLE]

just be carefull if you do use sugar.on account it's easy toput more on the rice.then what you care for

 

[DrHenley]

We eat rice Oriental style. No salt, no seasoning. It is what you put your food on and it soaks up the juices/gravy from whatever you put on it.

 

[Brent S]

I genuinely like rice but do like pepper, gravy, etc on it. It’s not a main course dish for me but is a great side. There almost always has to be a dead animal on my plate for every meal. No wonder I have clogged arteries....

 

[KateMTx]

There are so many good ways to eat rice. Honestly it goes with just about any protein. I often eat it with chicken soup, meatloaf, pea soup, roast chicken or turkey, etc. I literally mix them together which flavors the rice and adds body to them meal. It might not be everyone's taste to do this, though. I remember one of my younger brothers used to put italian seasoning on his rice. Very unusual but I tried it and it was actually good. Of course you can make red beans and rice as well.

 

[Brent S]

Neither a can of soup nor plain rice is great by itself but mixed together it’s a meal!

 

[DirtDiva]

Rice is a staple in Louisiana cooking. Google Dirty rice, Jambalaya, Rice is usually served with soups and gumbos as well as along with red beans, mixed with ground beef it can be stuffed into peppers or squash and also cabbage leaves. I keep cooked rice in the fridge and eat it for breakfast with 2 soft eggs on top and baby spinach. Leftovers can also be made into rice pudding. There are no end to dishes that can be made with rice.

 

[Kevin L]

Get seeds and grow hot peppers.

Hot peppers grow quickly, have few pests, and require little maintenence and care compared to other food plants.

See below:

Growing garlic is also a good idea. There are many ways to cook garlic, hot pepper, and rice together. If you know how to cook, then rice with peppers, garlic, and just a little salt can be very delicious. I have well over 200 pounds of rice, beans, soybeans, and quinoa stored in sealed 5 galoon buckets.

Also, hot pepper is a great source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and many other beneficial nutrients.

Garlic is supposedly good for certian infections as a "natural" antibiotic.

Also, a diet rich in hot pepper is supposedly good for intestinal worms like pinworm, hookwork, whipworm, and riundworms. The catch with these ideas is that the hot pepper must be eaten every day for a while.

If the anti-parasite qualities of pepper are of interest, then make sure that you research the effectiveness online.

I don't neccesarily buy into the medicinal pepper thing, but lotsof qualified doctors do.

 

[GaRp58]

Remember, I backpacked from CA to TX in 8 months and always had about 5-6 lbs. of rice with me. Mixed with boullion alone, with any meat or fish I could trap or catch. With some powdered milk and sugar for breakfast. With natural onions and Indian potatoe root mixed into a soup. Ground up into flour and mixed with flour and cattail or corn pollen to give it more vitamins and a cool yellow color and made ashcakes (little biscuits, baked in the ashes or coals). Thrown into any soup, stew, goulash or such to soak up the extra water... Rice pudding, rice mixed with noodles to stretch them for spagetti and such. Rice mixed with Tapioca for dessert. A fish filled with garlic, onion, a slice of lemon and a handfull of cooked rice. Wrapped with string and baked or deep fried...rice in your salt shaker to keep the salt from sticking together. If you are backpacking, make biscuits, pack them into a round, metal tennis-ball container with rice together. Some rice, a biscuit, more rice to surround and just cover the biscuit then layers to the top and put the plastic lid on again. You save space, have food for several days and the container can be used many times. Gary

 

[Petoski]

I normally go for ginger, garlic and chilli when cooking rice. All are easy to grow and they dry and store well.

 

[KateMTx]

I normally go for ginger, garlic and chilli when cooking rice. All are easy to grow and they dry and store well.

I forgot about using ginger for rice. My host mother when I studied abroad in Peru would make a stir-fry seasoned with ginger that we would eat with rice.

 

[Danil54grl]

Rice is very versatile and can be used in so many different ways. Some of my favorite have already been mentioned by DirtDiva, but so many more options. . . .

Rice and Beans,
Rice, refried beans, cheese and some seasoned meat stuffed in a tortilla for a burrito
Baked Rice with chicken bullion and onion powder
Mexican Rice
Indian Rice
Fried Rice
Cabbage stuffed with rice and meat
Herb Rice
Rice Pilaf
Home made Rice-A-Roni
In a pie with meat and veggies
Tuna with Rice = think Tuna Helper but made with rice instead of pasta
Cold Tuna and Rice Salad

The options are endless

 

[tmttactical]

Rice, cinnamon, sugar, milk and bowl. Great snack or light meal.

 

[grayghost668]

one of the things not on a shelf,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,RICE none NADA ZIP

 

[Brent S]

one of the things not on a shelf,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,RICE none NADA ZIP

That’s just sad.

 

[Danil54grl]

My hunny doesn't care for rice either. . . If it was up to him, we would have mashed potatoes and gravy at every meal.

 

[OldButtoni]

For me, one of the tastiest ways to have white rice it to cook/steam it first, chill in fridge and then stir-fry in a little vegetable oil with chopped green onion in it. Man, I could live on that stuff! Not sure why it's so good........it just is! And since I grow my own green onions in a big pot off other green onion rooted white ends, I have an endless supply from what most people throw away!