Cooked white rice is an economical food that is good for you. It is versatile dish that can be served all by itself or as a complement to a larger dinner menu. Rice is also a food that can be fun to be creative with. There are many things that can be cooked with white rice, but for now, we sill start first with the basic white rice recipe.

White rice and brown rice can be cooked in similar ways. But, white rice takes less cooking time than making brown rice does. For the Quaker Kitchen recipe and instructions about how to cook brown rice visit here.

Learning how to make white is really very simple. The basic cooking ratio is 1 part rice to two parts water; 1 cup rice to 2 cups of water.

In the Quaker Kitchen, I cook rice the way my Nana taught me when I was a girl. My Nana (grandmother) loved the simplicity of white rice and served it as a side dish to many of the large meals she cooked for her active family, which included many grandchildren! She never served a meal with a side dish of mashed potatoes that she didn't also include a side dish of plain white rice as well. Nana believed meals should be filling, nourishing and economical. She is the best cook I have ever known, and she is even so today at nearly 100 years old!

The following white rice recipe uses medium or long grain white rice.