If You Want Fluffy, Tender Rice, Avoid This Mistake

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If you’ve ever wondered why restaurant rice is so much better , the reasons are many; chefs often select higher-quality grains, cook them with butter, and heat them in either a specialised cooker or an oven.

Those added steps exist because, like perfect-cooking eggs and chicken, achieving tender, fluffy rice on the hob is actually pretty hard.

But if you don’t have a rice cooker, fret not. BBC Good Food has said that you can prevent “sticky”, gluey rice that forms a starchy mattress under your food might be easier than you think.

Just try as hard as you can not to make a common mistake, they add.

Don’t stir your rice

“NEVER stir rice as it cooks, or it will break up and turn sticky,” the site reads .

And the BBC isn’t alone in advising against the misst