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Healthy Baked Brown Rice

LoLa — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:02:13 GMT

Healthy Baked Brown Rice

We eat a lot of brown rice and this recipe makes it perfect. It's so nutty and delicious. Depending on your oven keep an eye on the baking time between 50 min and an hour. Yum!

1 1/2 cups brown rice
2 1/2 cups water
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion or garlic powder
1 pinch cayenne

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

Place the rice into an 8-inch square glass baking dish.

Bring the water, butter, and salt and seasonings just to a boil in a kettle or covered saucepan. Once the water boils, pour it over the rice, stir to combine, and cover the dish tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, remove cover and rake the rice with a fork. Serve immediately.

Re: Healthy Baked Brown Rice

walker — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:37:41 GMT

Thank you, LoLa, I like brown rice. It would be better for me to fix this than some of the quick versions out there.

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Sooner — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:41:40 GMT

We had this almost same recipe and one for a 9 x 13 pan go around on the recipe section sometime in the mid to late 1990s. It is WONDERFUL!!!! I like it better than my rice cooker, but the rice cooker is easier for me! I think I used to make it with beef broth and mushrooms. I'll have to try that! THANKS for posting! This makes THE best brown rice!

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nomar — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:46:38 GMT

Sure beats standing at the stove watching it. And will be so much better than using the instant kind of brown rice. Thanks.

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Sooner — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:58:16 GMT

If you or someone you know thinks they don't like brown rice, try this with them! Great as a side dish or cold with added goodies as a salad. You can freeze it, put it in dressings to go with chicken, put some in your soup, use it with a stir fry, add some peanuts and soy sauce to it, mix it with other grains, etc. You will be surprised how many ways you can find to use this. Oh, and it makes wonderful Mexican rice!

I am so glad OP thought to post this!!!! THANKS!

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vicki is ok — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:08:22 GMT

Years ago a friend of mine made brown rice and put a poached egg on top and drizzled it with fresh honey. I know that sounds strange, but it was so good that I love making it every so often. This sounds like a great way to cook my brown rice.

Thank you OP for the recipe

Vicki

Re: Healthy Baked Brown Rice

RealQuiet — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:20:31 GMT

This is the way I cook it also.

You could also use low sodium beef broth in place of the water and add some diced cooked mushrooms for variety.

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wagirl — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:26:25 GMT

This is the only way I cook brown rice anymore. It works great!! You can also add some white rice to it too, or any other similar type type. Keeps it moist and not so crunchy.

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RespectLife — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:15:17 GMT

Thanks for this post, Lola! I love rice, especially brown!

However, preparing it well ... STILL eludes me! I am pathetic on the stove top and lousy even w/ the Rice Cooker I insisted on buying. I could have wallpapered an entire village w/ the rice mushy paste I make! LOL I prefer my rice stiffer and all the little grains individual!

I thrilled to have a new way to try!

Realquiet...thanks for those suggestions as well. I love mushrooms and the beef broth is a good idea too.

Re: Healthy Baked Brown Rice

LoLa — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:43:02 GMT

You're all so very welcome. I wish I had stumbled across this recipe years ago. It makes a world of difference in brown rice. It's a keeper for sure!

ps.. RL: You are an absolute HOOT!!

Re: Healthy Baked Brown Rice

ucm_mom — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:07:43 GMT

LoLa--Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. I cook brown rice at least once a week but had never tried baking it in the oven. It is delicious cooked this way, and so easy. Thanks!

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chips — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:18:17 GMT

I am trying this this week. Love the nuttiness of brown rice. thanks Lola.

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chickenbutt — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:54:17 GMT

On 2/4/2014 nomar said:
Sure beats standing at the stove watching it. And will be so much better than using the instant kind of brown rice. Thanks.

Hi! One good thing that might help to know is that you really don't have to babysit a pot of rice. Just boil water, add in rice, pinch of salt (if you wish), give it a stir, put tight-fitting lid on pot, turn the burner down, and set your timer. This is how I've done it for a hundred years.

If I'm going to a part of my house where I won't hear the timer I just grab a portable one and bring it with me.

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Infinite Mom — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:39:36 GMT

I made this last night. Sure was good! Thanks for recipe!

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Katiesmom — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:56:27 GMT

Thanks for this. My brown rice is usually pretty boring (although my family loves it) - butter, salt and pepper and diced green onion. I'll have to try this.

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toodles11 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 08:04:41 GMT

going to give this a try.