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Nothing is more comforting to the home cooked meal than a little bit of white rice. Eaten at both restaurants and homes, rice is a staple that just about every resident has a must go to food. Many people who live in Hawaii spend special attention to the flavor of their rice and have certain brands that they buy at the store. Different grains are used for different types ranging from the ordinary medium grain rice (calrose rice), glutinous rice (aka. sticky rice, mochi rice), or short grain rice (jasmin rice).
Each person also likes to cook their white rice in different levels ranging from: dry-rice, standard-rice, slightly-wet, even soft-and-wet. Some even enjoy eating burnt-bottom rice (aka. koge rice) for its crispness. The process is simple...the rice is washed and thrown in a rice cooker with water and it finishes when the rice cooker beeps to show that the rice is done. |
White Rice in Hawaii
Rice, a staple of Hawaii is important in modern day eating. But it wasn’t the first starch to arrive in the fields. The planted starch of choice would be the beloved Taro, but after the years went by islanders started to get a taste for rice. The draw of rice started with the chinese who planted rice fields and used it in their cuisine and served it at their eateries across the island. As plantation life was a shared life style among the ethnic and multi-ethnic people who worked the fields there would be a large variety of dishes that used boy Taro and Rice. |
Food Characteristics
Hawaii White Rice has an appearance of being fluffy and soft. Medium Grain rice is known for absorbing flavors on the outside of the rice grain for sauces and gravy, so naturally it makes for a great companion for soups and stews. The dish is flexible in becoming a variety of Musubis that uses rice as a platform and a ingredient on top wrapped in dried seaweed, Plate Lunches in its traditional two scoop rice, two sides, and entree, and in a particular variety of local fried rice. |
Hawaii Rice Cooker
Just about every family in Hawaii is likely to have a rice cooker because the residence love rice so much. The process is simple...the rice is washed and thrown in a rice cooker with water and it finishes when the rice cooker beeps to show that the rice is done. It is also a convenient food, because there are many busy people it is convenient and quick to make a pot of rice ahead of time and store it in the fridge as side. |