My baby loves rice and it’s a healthy part of his diet so I had to learn how to cook it. Cooking rice is so easy I can never mess up. I usually like feeding him brown rice but lately he prefers white. Here are some easy steps or at least this is how my mom does it:

1. Wash 3 cups of basmati rice with cold water until water comes out clear. 
2. Soak rice in water, add one tbs salt in it, leave for 30 min.
3. Drain out the water and pour some water in the pot then add the rice to it, the more water the merrier. You can also add a pinch of salt according to taste. Once it boils, see if you can break the rice into two. If you can, then remove from stove.
4. Run the rice under cold tap water and drain very well.
5. Add some oil in the same pot and put the rice back in the pot.
6. Rice will be cooked in about 30 min to an hour, the longer the better but make sure it’s on a very low heat.
7. For colour and flavour you can add saffran on top or a 1/4 cup rose water mixed with saffran, pour it all over.
8. The result, edible rice.

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