Remove from heat; whisk in butter until melted and smooth.

This is a guide to many of the most common varieties, with notes on how to cook them, so that you too can participate in this essential culinary tradition that stretches back to the earliest days of human civilization.. Photo by Antonis Achilleos / Prop Styling by Christina Daley / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey.Long-grain rice.

There are two principle starches in rice — amylose and amylopectin — that along with the processing method influence how a grain behaves when cooked.Rice grains with a high proportion of amylopectin become sticky and soupy when cooked.Most long- and medium-grain rices are richer in amylose, which leads to grains that tend toward fluffy and separate.

Long-grain varieties are often the most aromatic forms of rice, with fragrances of roasted, uh, grain, tropical herbs, and wildflowers.Long-grain rice makes great table rice, of course, and is also best for dishes where you don't want rice grains to stick together, such as biryani, pilaf, and.

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are the two big long-grain rices in town.I followed his advice and sweated the vegetables in olive oil in a Dutch oven, slowly cooking the mixture, stirring almost as often with a wooden spoon as you would with a roux.

I then turned up the heat until I heard that rapid sizzle, signaling that the soffritto was beginning to caramelize, creating a massive amount of flavor.When you build flavor from the bottom of the pot like this, the flavors continue to transform, concentrating even further when you add then reduce aromatic liquids — in Leonti's case, adding crushed tomatoes and white wine, which cook down to a tomato-wine-soffritto jam full of umami.

That flavor base gets rehydrated with water, then cooks down again with the kale and bread — the latter adds tangy flavor and disintegrates into the soup to add texture.Finally, cooked beans — both whole and pureed — go in, thickening and tightening the soup into a porridge.. Leonti served many of his courses in gold-rimmed Richard Ginori china to frame his food in the Tuscan context.