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leftover rice ideas????

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PatTheHammer · 20/03/2010 09:36

Hi all,

Friends round for dinner last night and I have a large amount of cooked rice leftover, any ideas for a meal for lunchtime where I could use it?

Needs to feed 2 adults and 2 gannets small children.

Any ideas welcome

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CheeeseOnToast · 20/03/2010 09:38

Egg fried rice? Almost a meal in itself - reheat in a frying pan, add two whisked eggs, wait till they're semi-set then stir in. Add strips of chicken, prawns, peas, spring onions, whatever you like, and heat through.

Or you could do little rice cake things? Shape them into patties then shallow fry.

Er... can you make rice pudding from already cooked rice?

Run out of ideas!

PatTheHammer · 20/03/2010 09:54

Thanks cheese, fried rice sounds great.

I did think of rice pudding but I am not a huge fan

I know there are lots of obvious ideas but I am too hungover lazy tired to think

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CheeeseOnToast · 20/03/2010 10:10

I must be hungover too 'cause I can't think of any others either!!

You could do a nice rice salad too? No more cooking involved

BariatricObama · 20/03/2010 10:19

chuck it out. there is a high risk of food poisoning from cooked rice

thelittlebluepills · 20/03/2010 10:23

definitely bin it - apparently most food poisoning from curries is actually the rice rather than the curry

This is off the Government's Food Standard Agency website:

t's true that you could get food poisoning from eating reheated rice. But it's not actually the reheating that's the problem ? it's the way the rice has been stored before reheating.

Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will germinate into bacteria. These bacteria will multiply and may produce toxins (poisons) that cause vomiting or diarrhoea. Reheating the rice won't get rid of these toxins.

So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that bacteria, or the toxins they produce, could stop the rice being safe to eat.

It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.

Remember that when you reheat any food, you should always check that it's steaming hot all the way through, and avoid reheating more than once.

CheeeseOnToast · 20/03/2010 10:25

oh dear. In that case I must have a steel-lined stomach - I ate some rice yesterday that I cooked on Tuesday night and didn't refridgerate until a few hours after I cooked it.

Better to be safe than sorry I guess, Pat. Seems a waste though!

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