Fluffy rice???

[Shada]

I love rice.
Actually I love the rice sold at Chao Cajun in the food court at the mall with bourbon chicken.

I was just there Thursday... can't speak highly enough of it.
The rice is light and fluffy.. and I can't make it.

My rice is always thick and clumpy. It works, but how in the heck do you make fluffy rice??

I follow recipes. Nope. Bought a rice cooker. Nope.
I use brown rice. Most people I know use white rice and claim no problems. I really don't want to change to white rice... prefer the brown.. so what am I doing wrong?

Oh and if any of you have a tried and true recipe for bourbon chicken like that sold at Chao Cajun, I promise to make your next house payments for a year!
I have tried many I have found on the net.. not even close. I found a site that sold the ingredients that promised to be as good if not better than Chao Cajun's.. bought it for $25.00 and again not even close.

So what I am saying here is... HELP!

[Janet]

I love rice too...preferable the brown and mine always tastes nice and fluffy. I follow the directions and then the only thing I do is not lift the lid until I'm ready to pour it in a bowl. My hubby's grandmother told me to leave the lid on rice and on dumplings if I wanted them to turn out right.

[Shada]

Thanks Janet... but directions just don't seem to work for me!!
I don't take the lid off either.. what could I be doing wrong???

Really frusturates me.

[Janet]

I really don't know Shada. I'm an awful cook I think, it's just not something I enjoy doing. Now I do love fixing a nice Thanksgiving Dinner and the food is always so good, but to do it everyday...I'm just not good. I was fixing smoked sausage on Friday...I've been wanting it so bad recently and I burnt it all to a crisp...black as night. So we had frozen pizza.

[DianaB]

I fix all of my rice in the microwave. If you have your microwave book there should be instructions in there for it. On mine I have a "Rice" button that I push but on my old microwave I had to put in two different times and temps and it cooked it all on it's own. After it comes out then you just take a fork and fluff it.

[teri88]

I only use brown rice, and I've never had a problem either. ARe you using enough water?

BTW Diana I LOVE that butterfly bench. My son's eagle scout project was building a butterfly garden and he tried to find something like that to put in it.