 Hey everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com If this is your first time or repeat visiting this channel, thank you for your support. On this channel I have about nearly 700 videos and I noticed that I do not have any cooking video so I wanted to try something different and as a result I'm doing my first cooking video so today I'm going to talk about how to cook rice easy and simple way if you have never cooked rice before in your life so you'll find lots of rice videos online but most of them are complicated and therefore professional cooks are not for simple ways to cook and very difficult to follow but today I'm going to show you my cooking method which I learned from my life experience it was not given by any professional cook or anyone and I'm going to show you these cooking methods today which is going to be very easy and simple to follow and anyone can cook rice if you have never cooked in your life now the expectations should be real don't expect to cook perfect rice the first time you try you're going to have to just like you know trying to get the perfect measurement and the rice cooking but once you follow the steps you're going to be cooking a perfect rice very shortly you have to just like you know get the right measurement and the right amount of rice you are taking so whenever you're cooking rice basically you are dealing with two different methods one I call is rice water absorption method and the second one I call is water drain method so basically the first one which is the rice water absorption method the rice is absorbing the water and you don't have to drain the rice and this is very easy to do if you have a rice cooker but you can do easily with a pot but you know I'm going to be showing you in a rice cooker which is much easier to do and the rice or sorry water drain method is that you know you're cooking rice in enough water but you're not letting the rice absorb the whole water you're just going to drain the water once the rice is fully cooked so I'm going to touch base on that method as well but my choice of method is the rice or sorry water absorption method in a rice cooker and that's what I'll show you today so let's start so the first thing you take some rice in a pot which is self-explanatory then you wash the rice and usually I wash it about three four times so once the water you know runs clear so let's say you wash the rice and then drain all the water and now you're going to put water in the rice which is going to be your measurement and this is the most important part of cooking rice because if you miss the water level or the amount of water then your rice is going to come out either good or bad so this is what I learned from my lifetime of cooking rice that you take a measurement by your finger joint or finger mark so for me here is the perfect measurement of cooking rice so this is about two inches and if you have a like you know smaller or longer finger then you can adjust your finger measurement so for me in order to cook perfect rice I would just take water up to this point so which is going to be about above 1.5 inch but below 2.5 inch now depending on what kind of rice you're cooking let's say if you're cooking like soft type of rice for example basmati or jasmine or that type of rice then you're going to try to stay just slightly above 1.5 inch which is going to be about right here but if you're cooking hard rice or like you know strong rice for example which could be brown rice or parboiled rice then you have to take water level up to very close to this which is going to be close to two inches so again for softer rice you're going to stay above 1.5 inch and for like you know strong rice or hard rice you're going to stay close to two inch and that's how you're going to do so let me just show you how it works so I'm going to just put some water in here and I'm going to take a spoon just to you know make the rice even and now I'm going to measure how much is the water so as you can see it's not anywhere near like you know 1.5 inch so I'm going to just keep adding more water so if you take a look at my measurement right now you're going to see that you know I'm close to 1.5 inch level I can just add little bit more water and that should be good enough because you know I kind of passed 1.5 inch now let's say this is right now I have basmati rice if you want the rice to make little bit like you know softer you can make your water level close to two inch but if you want little bit like you know perfect type of rice or very not like you know they're not attaching to each other that kind of like you know very good rice then you can just stick to 1.5 inch so I'm very close to 1.5 little bit maybe above so this rice should come out you know not too watery and not to dry either so let's see what happens so right now I'm going to just you know put the rice in a rice cooker and you can use any pot for this for example you can use anything like this as well but you know rice cooker makes everything so much easier so that's why I'm going to you know try it in a rice cooker so right now I have the rice cooker on as you can see right here and then this should cook a perfect rice within about I would say like you know 20 minutes half an hour that range now if you're cooking rice in a pot like that one I showed you then you have to just like you know keep an eye on it and then you have to turn it off once like you know your rice is cooked enough so that's why I don't like to cook in a regular pot rather I choose a you know rice cooker because I don't have to keep checking it because once the cooking is done rice cooker is stopped and it's just going to be a perfect rice now while this rice is being cooked let me tell you about the second method which is the water drain method so this is the water absorption method the rice is going to absorb all water and is going to give you a rice but if you want to drain the water then all you have to do here our measurement was close to this mark on my finger which is about 2 inch but if you're draining the water then actually you don't have to follow this you can just like you know put it about 4 marks which is going to be like you know 4 inches or even it can be 3 inches but you have to just make sure that there's enough water inside the rice so the rice doesn't you know get dry or absorb all the water so once you have enough water which I would suggest about 3 and a half inch or close to 4 inch then you boil it if you're draining the rice then it's much easier to cook in a pot like that instead of a rice cooker because you know rice cooker is going to try to like you know absorb the rice and it can be there may not be enough space in a rice cooker to give you extra water but if you use a pot like that then you can put in enough rice so don't put close to 2 inch which we would use for the rice absorption method so put like you know 3 inch or 4 inches and then start boiling then the thing is that you have to just like you know once you boil for let's say about like 20 minutes 25 minutes you have to just keep checking the rice how soft it is or if it's well cooked so you have to just like you know you can what you can do when you are using the rice drain method you can just like you know take a rice like you know one piece of rice from the rice and then you just like you know press it and then you're going to know that you know if it's done if you are pressing the rice and it's all melted inside your fingers then that means the rice is done but if you're pressing it and it's not melting that means the rice is not done yet I'm going to show when to know the rice fully cooked from here once we cook finish cooking the rice but basically that's how you going to cook so let's wait and finish this rice then I'm going to like you know end the video by giving you my last you know comment how do I view on the rice just has been fully cooked so I'm going to unplug the rice cooker first thing and then you can see that it's still you know the hot vapor is coming out and it's very you know fluffy and it's not sticking to each other and you can see that you know it's a perfectly nice cooked rice and what I was telling you before that the way you can check if the rice is fully cooked or not so you just take one rice and then when you press it between your fingers then it has to be melted between your fingers so I don't feel anything hard in between my fingers I'm taking a rice and pressing it it's just you know totally I can press it all the way and I don't feel anything hard so that means the rice has been cooked fully in perfect way and that's how you cook the perfect cup of rice now if you're cooking it for the first time you know you may not get the perfect at the first time but you have to just like you know you need a little bit of practice and again this is the water absorption method works best if you have a rice cooker but if you don't have a rice cooker then you can still you know use the process I showed you and still it's going to cook a perfect rice but the only thing is you have to just you know keep on keep in mind that you have to just keep checking when rice is fully cooked so you just like you know open the lid and then take out one rice and just like you know cooking each time which can be a hassle that's why I prefer rice cooker and again if you were using the water drain method then it's easier to cook in a pot like the one I showed you before and you have to just put enough water in the rice so it can like you know boil or it can cook the rice fully and then after I would say like in half an hour or 35 minutes then you know you take out a piece of rice and check it and if you think it's okay then you have to just drain the water but definitely this is my method of choice I like this way water absorption with a rice cooker thank you for watching this video if you like this video then definitely I'll make some more easy cooking videos in the future and thanks for your support and I'll see you shortly thank you