I’ve recently been trying to put some new meals in my repertoire and when browsing for new ideas I’ve noticed that many recipes call for day old leftover rice instead of fresh one. Egg fried rice for example. Some people even seem to insist that it doesn’t work with fresh rice. Why is that?
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A good tasting fried rice required the rice to be at the right “dryness”, and fresh rice is quite “wet” in the sense that it is quite soft, the easiest way to reduce the water content is just by letting it “dried out”, and the easiest way is just putting your rice in your fridge overnight. Reduce water content when cooking the rice could work, but not convenient and can easily fk up your rice if too less water or cooked it for way too long.
Also that leftover rice is just much, much easier to work with than fresh rice when making fried rice.
Also not all Asian recipe call for leftover rice, if I’m having Indian Curry I’m going to use fresh rice for it.
(I’m Asian)
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