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Rice Starch Water (Rice Water)

How to make rice water (rice starch water)

Servings: 4 cups
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Rice water (or rice starch water) is widely used as a beauty and hair treatment in Korea. Due to its starch component, it is also used as a natural thickener in Korean cuisine. Learn how to make rice water and its benefits.
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Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup rice
  • about 3 cup water, to rinse off
  • 4 cup water, to reserve

Instructions 

  • Pour some water (about 3 cup) over uncooked rice in a bowl. Run your fingers through the rice a couple times to rinse the rice, then drain the water. Discard this first rinsed water.
    Water is poured on a bowl of uncooked rice.
  • Swirl the rice around for 15 seconds with your fingers to loosen the starch coating on the rice grains.
    A hand is swirling the rice in a.bowl.
  • Add the amount of water the recipe needs (or about 4 cups)and rinse the rice. You will see the water turning milky. This is your rice water that you will need to reserve.
    A hand is swirling the rice in water.
  • Pour the second rinsed water (rice water) into another bowl and reserve it for your cooking or beauty needs.
    Rice water (Rice starch water) is often used in Korean soups and stews.
  • Continue to rinse your rice a couple more times before cooking it by your usual rice cooking method.
Cuisine: Korean
Course: Cooking Basic
Author: Holly Ford
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