Baked Brown Rice
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Recipe type: side dish
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Serves: 12 cups
 
Cook brown rice in bulk in the oven and freeze it for several meals' worth of a super quick and easy side dish.
Ingredients
  • 2 pounds brown rice
  • 7½ cups hot water or broth
  • 0-3 tablespoons of fat, to taste (butter, olive oil, coconut oil, whatever strikes your fancy)
  • 0-1 teaspoon of salt, to taste
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
  2. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish
  3. Pour 2 pounds of brown rice into the dish
  4. Mix optional salt and fat into 7 cups of hot (tap water hot is fine) water or broth
  5. Pour over the rice and swish things around very gently to make sure the rice and liquid are evenly distributed (water, broth, or some combination)
  6. Cover the dish as tightly as you can with foil
  7. Cook for 1 hour
  8. Immediately fluff the rice with a fork to prevent steam from further cooking the rice
  9. Serve hot, or cool and freeze in meal-sized portions
Recipe by Dishwasher Required at http://dishwasherrequired.com/cooking-and-freezing-rice-in-bulk/