A cooking question

[TheCosyRain]

I’ve been batch cooking some dishes to freeze/reheat for my 9 month old.

The recipe I followed today called for cooked rice. I cooked the rice first whilst I chopped and got on with prep for the rest of the recipe. Once it was done I set it aside for about 15 or 20 minutes until the recipe said to re-add it to the rest of the (hot) sauce/ingredients.

I want to freeze and reheat this dish in batches at a later date but does this count as reheating it twice seeing as the rice will have cooled before I added it to the rest of the food? I obviously don’t want to make my baby ill!

Yes. I wouldn’t reheat it again now as it’s been cooked and then reheated in the sauce.
It would have been better to have timed it to finish cooking to add straight to the hot sauce without cooling, then it could be reheated safely to eat.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/#:~:text=Tips%20on%20serving%20rice%20safely&text=If%20that%20is%20not%20possible,reheat%20rice%20more%20than%20once.

Thank you, I was making it in a rush whilst she napped and didn’t think it through properly. She didn’t even like it anyway which is just as well! 🙄