Rice preparation and good health

Cooking rice is a time-consuming effort especially when your preferred choice of rice is brown rice. And every person, irrespective of their daily routine, would strongly agree that alternate methods that can reduce longer cooking times must be explored.

Cooking food by way of boiling is one of the most common techniques for preparing any kind of food especially rice. Boiling is a preferred method of cooking because it does not require any additional ingredient like in the case of sauteing and does not any additional and unwanted taste to the food. However, boiling rice is not as healthy an option as it may appear.

While boiling rice, key nutrients from the rice interacts with the water. Once the rice is cooked, all the extra water from the rice is required to be drained. Therefore, in the process of draining water, the nutrients also get drained out leaving you with lost time and lost health.

In such a situation, it becomes important to explore an alternative method of cooking rice that is easy, quick and can retain its nutrients. One alternative to boiling rice that can meet these requirements is cooking rice in a stainless steel cooker. Read along to know more!

1. Choose the right pressure cooker:

The first step towards a healthy rice preparation is choosing the right pressure cooker. Food, including rice, should be cooked in the right size and material of pressure cookers. The right size of a pressure cooker refers to the capacity of the pressure cooker. A pressure cooker’s capacity is measured in litres i.e how many litres of water the pressure cooker can hold and boil to create steam. Depending on the quantity of food one intends to cook, the capacity pressure cooker should be chosen.

Pressure cookers are manufactured using two popular materials i.e stainless steel and aluminium. The difference between a stainless steel pressure cooker and an aluminium pressure cooker can be read here.

2. No nutritional loss:

If a pressure cooker with the right capacity and material is chosen and the water used for cooking the rice in the pressure cooker is not in excess, the need to drain excess water is eliminated. This ensures that the nutrients that have interacted with the water are not lost and are retained with the food.

3. Better nutrition absorption:

Pressure cooker cooking reduces phytic acids and lectins. Phytic acids and lectins are anti-nutrients i.e they bind with nutrients and deter their absorption in the body. When rice is soaked overnight and cooked in a pressure cooker, the phytic acids and lectins are reduced significantly, thereby allowing better nutrition absorption

4. Increased hygiene

When rice is stored over time, it may develop bacteria and fungus that is not visible to the naked eye. If such bacteria and fungus is not eliminated and instead consumed, it may have serious ill-effect on human health. The steam used in pressure cooker cooking ensures that steam which is created at a 100 degrees Celsius kills all such bacteria and makes rice safe for consumption.

With these health benefits, cooking rice in a stainless steel cooker deserves to be the new standard of cooking. Vinod Cookware’s range of stainless steel pressure cookers allows you to cook rice and several other recipes with ease. Visit [insert link] to buy a Vinod Cookware Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker today!