Cooking a healthy diet entails more than just combining whatever ingredients are available with the food and preparing it; it also entails following and obeying certain healthy cooking steps.
These cooking steps are essential for the preparation of a healthy diet, but most people skip some of them while cooking, either because they don’t see the need to follow the steps or because they want to cook quickly to save time and money.
Due to a failure to follow some of these healthy cooking steps and practices, many unhealthy mistakes are made when cooking.
Yes, mistakes are quite inevitable, but we can reduce how often we make these mistakes by paying attention to details or following useful tips.
Therefore, this article will expose you to two common unhealthy mistakes you may have been making when cooking rice.
1) Not sieving out the water in the rice after parboiling
This is very common in most people, especially those who cook for a living, as they are constantly rushing to meet deadlines or save time and money. Some people prefer to add the ingredients for cooking the rice right after it has been parboiled, even without sieving out the parboiling water.
This is a common mistake that renders rice unhealthy to eat because some of the excess starch that should be sieved out with the parboiling water is consumed, increasing the risk of various health issues such as diabetes and weight gain, which all arise from consuming way too much starch.
2) Leaving the pot open when boiling the rice:-
Whenever rice is cooked, the rice water becomes very foamy and begins to gush out of the pot, causing the cooker to malfunction. Many people remove the cover of the pot and leave it open at this point to allow the foamy water to settle, which is unhealthy because the rice can easily become contaminated. Instead, adjust the cover slightly, leaving a small portion of the pot open to allow the foamy water to settle.
