shit rice still hard

[mousyfledermaus]

brown rice
been cooking as per instructions in 1:2 cups of water.
been boiling for half an hour.
still very al dente.
advice?

If there is still plenty of water, cook for another 10 -20 minutes, testing occasionally. If there's hardly any water left for the rice to absorb, put some in from the kettle. Brown rice is usually a little firmer than white when cooked but it shouldn't require any chewing!!!

in the end I cooked it for 45 mins and it still hadn't absorbed all the water and was still a lot more chewy than I like.

Turn off heat,leave the lid on. It should steam/cook itself in about 10 mins.

Was it fresh rice from a good source? Brown basmati or just brown long-grain?

no tesco own brown easy cook rice. maybe will get another brand next time.

Brown basmati cooks beautifully in 25 minutes, I find. More expensive than easy-cook but 10x nicer.

thanks, just have to rid of the kile of rice that's left.
can I make rice pudding with it?

what is a kile?
kilo of course...

Brown basmatic is nice. It is harder than white rice. Maybe "as soft as you like" is just not possible.

No, you need puding rice (or at a push risotto rice) to make rice pudding.

Delia has a brown rice pudding... here. It's not bad as I remember. x

What you could try is soaking the rice for an hour before cooking it. Might bring the cooking time down and improve the texture.

I have had brown rice before, but that cooked faster, absorbed all the water and didn't have a hard core iyswim.

I actually think you should take it back to Tesco and get a refund. I don't know what they do to rice to make it 'quick cook'... maybe it's a different variety or something?... but the stuff you've got is not doing what it said on the packet and is probably a duff batch. As you say, ordinary brown rice doesn't normally stay hard.

Is it cheating to say I use Uncle Bens wholegrain rice instead and although its probably not the best its never been hard and always perfectly nice?

made rice pudding. took an hour and half to cook and was only nice to eat the next morning. (having spent the night in the fridge an being warmed up on the hob.
def try some brown basmati next.