Warm Rice & Olive Salad. Whether it's from ordering take-out or when I make it at home, I always count myself lucky when I have leftover rice. Unless you plan to repurpose it for fried rice or a quick pudding, the key to enjoying soft, fluffy rice a second time around is knowing the right way to reheat it. After sitting in the fridge overnight, rice loses some of its moisture — it becomes dried out, tough, chewy.
Use high heat as you warm the rice in the microwave.
The amount of time will depend upon the amount of rice you have.
People often believe it is unsafe to reheat rice.
You can cook Warm Rice & Olive Salad using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Warm Rice & Olive Salad
- Prepare 4 of green onions.
- You need 1 clove of garlic, very fine chopped.
- It's 1 of red bell pepper.
- You need 1 small of can sliced black olives.
- Prepare 12 of cherry tomatoes.
- You need 4 tbsp of flat leaf parsley, chopped.
- Prepare 3/4 tsp of cumin.
- Prepare 1 of salt and pepper to taste.
- It's 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- It's 3 cup of cooked & cooled (but still warm)long grain white rice.
- It's 1 of juice from half of a lemon.
- You need 3/4 tsp of mild chili power.
This is because certain bacteria in rice can survive the cooking process. In fact, it is safe to eat reheated rice if it is cooked, stored, and. To reheat rice in the oven, start by spreading the rice out in an even layer in a shallow dish. Add a splash of water vegetable stock to the pan and cover tightly with aluminum foil.
Warm Rice & Olive Salad instructions
- set cooked cooled but still warm rice to the side..
- dice red pepper..
- chop green onion..
- in a skillet or pot add oil, onion, olives, red pepper, chili powder, cumin, garlic and lemon juice..
- turn heat on high and cook for only 3 minutes until hot and parsley gets soft and wilted.
- meanwhile quarter the tomatoes..
- add to pot\skillet. saute for another minute until tomatoes are just warm..
- turn off heat and add rice. toss to coat..
- pour into serving bowl..
- serve..
- great served with fajitas! :) or tacos..
- serves about 4-5..
Rice cookers are the most common tool to keep your rice warm, since you most likely used one to cook your rice in the first place. Set the rice cooker to the regular white rice cycle, and select Start. Fluff cooked rice with a fork and top rice with green onion and basil. Sushi on warm rice would be disgusting, and certainly not something one would ever find in Japan. Like the above poster says, sushi rice should be room temperature or very close to it, and have a "shine" to it from the seasoning and preparation, which is why its very important that it be fresh.