Air rice at home

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make air rice at home? Prepare the ingredients. Rice can be chosen round-grain or long-grain, but then in this case it must be steamed. If you buy rice not steamed, there is a chance to get crumbs at the exit, since such rice falls apart.

2. Step 2:

   

   How to cook rice? Rinse the rice under running water several times to keep the water clean. Pour the clean rice into a saucepan, pour plenty of water, put on fire and bring the water to a boil. Then reduce the heat and cook the rice for 20-25 minutes over low heat.

3. Step 3:

   

   Flip the cooked rice into a colander and rinse under water. This is done so that the rice does not stick together between each other. Leave the rice in a colander for a while to drain excess water.

4. Step 4:

   

   Now it is necessary to dry the rice thoroughly. To do this, put the rice on towels, napkins or paper towels, distribute it evenly and get wet. Transfer to clean towels, get wet again and let the rice dry for 30 minutes.

6. Step 5:

   

   Cover the baking sheet with parchment, put the dried rice on it and distribute it over the entire area of the parchment. Put the baking sheet in the oven and dry the rice for 2-2.5 hours at a temperature of 100 ° C, stirring it occasionally. Be very careful, the rice should be dried very well. I kept the rice in the oven for 2 hours and 15 minutes.

7. Step 6:

   

   The duration and temperature of drying rice may vary depending on the temperature and design of the oven, as well as the choice of round-grain or long-grain rice. If the rice is not dried to the end, then there will be no explosive effect and air rice will not work. Deep-fried rice is just fried and that's it.

8. Step 7:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into a container and put it on the stove to warm up. The amount of oil will greatly depend on the depth and width of the dishes in which you will cook. In a very well-heated oil, but not steaming, spread the rice in small portions. It will immediately begin to increase in volume and burst. This "explosion" occurs when heated due to the presence of starch and water in the grains, which, when heated sharply, breaks the cells.

9. Step 8:

   

   As soon as the rice has burst, immediately take it out with a slotted spoon and transfer it to a plate covered with napkins, this will remove excess oil. At this time, send the next portion of dried rice to the fryer. Rice should be removed from the deep fryer immediately, since after a few seconds it begins to fry, this will lead to the fact that the rice will become stiff, not airy. The skimmer should be used with a sieve, since the size of the air rice is very small.