How long should red rice be soaked in advance for cooking?

Many grains have different degrees of softness and hardness, so different grains cannot be cooked together. If you want to cook all your favorite cereals together, you need to soak some of the cereals that are harder to cook in advance. Only when they are softened can you cook them together. People say that red rice is black rice. How long should the red rice be soaked in advance before cooking? Here I will tell you how to make black rice.

1. How to make black rice

Knowing the nutritional value and edible effects of black rice, eating black rice can keep you healthy, so how do you cook black rice in your life? Compared with ordinary white rice, black rice has a tougher skin on the outside, which is not easy to cook. Taking steamed rice as an example, wash the white rice and black rice together, and then steam them in a pot. This will cause the white rice to be cooked within a normal time, but the black rice will not. At this time, you might as well soak the black rice in advance. Experienced housewives will soak the black rice the night before. The soaking process can allow the black rice to absorb water and soften it. It will be easier to cook in the subsequent cooking process, avoiding the situation where the white rice is cooked while the black rice is still half-cooked.

2. Cooking black rice is more beneficial to health

Compared with white rice, black rice can better satisfy people's appetite and is more beneficial to the body. Compared with ordinary, common white rice, black rice contains more abundant nutrients.

In ancient times, black rice was often a nutritious delicacy that ordinary people could not enjoy. More often, it became a tribute to the royal family. The "Imperial Rouge Rice" in "Dream of Red Mansions" refers to a kind of black glutinous rice, which is a type of black rice. Therefore, in some human books, we will see some people call black rice "tribute rice". In terms of rice types, black rice and white rice are different. Black rice contains higher levels of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, trace elements, etc., which are more effective for health care. In terms of the nutritional value of food, the darker the color of the same food, the higher its nutritional value will be. Rice just fits this rule. For example, the vitamin B in black rice is 4 times that of white rice, and the potassium and iron elements are 3 times that of ordinary rice.

Black rice has strong medicinal value. It is recorded in ancient medical books that black rice "nourishes yin and kidneys, strengthens the body and warms the stomach, improves eyesight and activates blood circulation, clears the liver and moistens the intestines, lubricates dampness and benefits the essence, and nourishes the lungs and relaxes the muscles." It can be used as food or medicine, and is very effective in treating dizziness, anemia and gray hair. In some places, black rice is even called "medicinal rice" or "longevity rice".