- 2 bags of grain rice
- Spray the crockpot with cooking spray
- Empty the rice into the crockpot
- Cover the rice with water or chicken stock. Add about another inch of water to ensure it’s really covered. You can add 3 chicken bouillion cubes if you don’t want to use chicken stock.
- Add 4 tbsp (or possibly more if you want) of butter
- Cook on high for about 3-4 hours. You need to watch it near the last hour depending on how fast your crockpot cooks. This turns to mush if you overcook it.
When the rice is cooled, separate into freezer bags. When you are ready to cook, just let it thaw and stick it in the microwave with a tbsp of butter (to moisten it) and you’re good to go! This saves SO much time and quite a bit of money considering a bag of uncooked rice is around $1.50 and we get about 3-4 side dishes with the one bag.
*Thanks to: Mommy Snacks
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Okay, so I just made this today for the first time and this is what I found. I used an entire bag of organic short grain brown rice. In my crockpot, I found that putting it on the high setting (and having it completely covered with water) did end up burning the edges and bottom of where the rice met the pot. It did take about 4 hours all together. I may try and put it on the low setting and let it run for 6-8 hours and see what happens. Overall, this was soooo easy and is the only way, I think, to do rice! You can get healthy, good-for-you rice (which normally takes 30 minutes or more to make) and have it ready for you in the freezer for any meal you prefer. I like to save my bags so when I batch and freeze I use the wiltons cupcake molds: I put the rice in these and freeze then overnight. Then I peel out the frozen serving and stick all of them in a freezer bag (you can see more info in our blog post- http://motherhoodsupport.blogspot.com/2010/04/bat…! Pretty easy!! Thanks so much to Mommy Snacks for this easy and time saving recipe!