[Sca-cooks] The tastiest grape leaves

[Steve]

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I personally don't like the texture after cooking.  If you want non sticky
rice, get a good rice and rinse it a couple times or use brown or wild
rice.  Growing up in Asia I like sticky rice (it's easier to pick up with
chopsticks).

Æduin
At 05:29 PM 04/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Also sprach DragonTamer:
>>Stupid question number 3000000002.....what is converted rice??
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>Converted rice is sometimes known as parboiled rice. Uncle Ben's is a
>common example around here. It's not as vile as Minute Rice, but it
>has been partially pre-cooked and then dried, the object being to
>remove surface starches and make it less sticky, and a little easier,
>in theory, for mere non-rice-cooking mortals to cook. The cooking
>process, the timing or the water-to-grain proportions are different;
>I forget which; it's been a long time since I cooked parboiled rice.
>
>Adamantius

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