White rice is one of the most consumed products worldwide, due to its low cost and high nutritional value. However, the high caloric contribution of this cereal also makes it one of the foods that most affect the formation of body fat. However, their calories can be reduced halfway if we modify the way of cooking rice, how? We tell you below! A chemical science student at the University of Colombo, Sudhair A. James, and his professor, Dr. Pushparajah Thavarajah, showed that cooking rice with coconut oil and its subsequent cooling allowed to modify the structure of the starch of this cereal to do so non -digestible and, therefore, it is possible to prevent starch from becoming glucose that the body absorbs and turns into fat. If you also want to start following this method to include rice in your diet without harming your health, in Recipesgatis we show the recipe of rice cooked with coconut oil and we explain how the reduction of calories occurs.
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| Ingredients to make rice cooked with coconut oil: |
| 2 cups of water (480 milliliters) 1 cup of white rice 1 tablespoon of coconut oil |
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Ingredients to make rice cooked with coconut oil:
1. Cooking white rice with coconut oil to reduce your calories in half is very simple. The first thing you should do is boil the two cups of water along with the spoonful of coconut oil. You can include it without melting it previously, since it will dissolve with the water quickly.
2. When it breaks to boil, it incorporates the rice and lowers the temperature to cook it over low heat for approximately 40 minutes. Although we have used white rice, you can use any other type. According to the finding of Sri Lanka researchers, it is essential to follow this cooking method, even if it is slower than the traditional one, to obtain that transformation and get cereal starch become resistant (not digestible).
3. After cooking time, you must let rice with coconut oil in the refrigerator for 12 hours. The indicated rest time is also essential to obtain the desired result. This is because, according to the scientists responsible for the study, coconut oil allows to modify the structure of the starch during cooking, but it is the cooling process that manages to maintain that change and ensure that rice sees its caloric contribution reduced to the half.
4. Praise! After the rest time in the refrigerator you can already serve white rice with coconut oil as an accompaniment of any food and even make a rice salad with it. Likewise, you can reheat the rice without altering the number of calories, since as the researchers indicate the fact of heating it does not make digestible starch again.
