How to Make Easy Baked White Rice | Julia at Home

As a single person I make a pan using the following recipe: Preheat oven to 350 degrees In a baking dish/pan combine: 1 cup rice (rinse and drain rice well), 1 1/2 cups water and a Dash of salt. Sometimes I add a teaspoon or so of olive oil. Bake 30-50 minutes and let rest for a few minutes after taking out of the oven. Perfect everytime! Makes enough for 4 meals (or 2 fresh and freeze the rest). I don't add anything else except may substitute chicken broth for the water (eliminate the salt because most broth has salt!)

I cook once a month for a soup kitchen so large scale recipes are of use to me. I usually scale for 25-30 servings or ¼ of our usual number of guests. So here’s how to scale this recipe: Use 1.5:1 water to rice to scale. Rice roughly triples in volume when cooked. So if you want 30 cups cooked, start with 10 cups dry and add 15 cups water using this recipe/method. (You’d use 20 cups water stove top or 10 cups Instant Pot but you’d have to cook in batches.) The difference in amount of water is due to evaporation during cooking, depending on cooking method. A 9x13” pan (such as she used) is 3.75 qt or 15 cups. Hers was filled to 80% of capacity (12 cups or 3 qt) for safety. Don’t fill a pan all the way to the top because of skin burn risk while moving pan—leave slosh and boil over space of about 20% of pan capacity for this recipe. Some recipes will need more boil over space.

What a great idea for large batches of rice! I never thought about doing it this way. Thanks

Great idea . To get the fluff and have lovely cooked single grains too, I would add either warm butter or oil to the pan, mix the rice with oil to coat the grains and then cook as you did! Will take you to another level. You could add some coconut cream too to get white coconut rice

I have the original Corning Ware casserole dishes that can go on your stove burner. It’s great to bring water to a boil, then add the salt and rice, put on a layer of foil and the cover. Most of the time I skip the foil and it cooks fine. Then put it in the oven. This is the only way I cook rice since I read it in Cooks Illustrated magazine. The Corning Ware can go right to the table.

I am eager to try this out! Julia is such a natural in the kitchen. Wish she'd start her own YouTube series on the side

What a great method, thank you ATK (and Julia) for sharing this.

I'm so happy to see you making chili and rice. I am a native Texan and I love rice with my chili. This is so foreign to my fellow native Texans.

I can attest that this method for cooking rice works beautifully. My mom would boil one part water and one part chicken broth before pouring it over white rice in a Pyrex casserole dish she covered in foil or, if we were having company, a lidded stoneware dish. I think she dropped a tablespoon of butter on the rice before adding the liquid. The rice would bake for an hour next to a cut up fryer covered in pea pods, pineapple chunks and water chestnuts. She found the recipe for "Polynesian Chicken" in the local paper in the late 60s or early 70s, and it was a family favorite for decades. The rice was always perfect.

It is a great idea. We always use rice cookers too. I have a 5 cup for everyday use and a 10 cup for crowds. For bigger crowds somebody has a 30 cup rice cooker we can borrow. My mother's family used to cook rice the old fashioned way with a rice pot that has a rounded bottom and wings that fit over the hole in a 55 gallon drum that is fueled by wood. My grandparents made rice that way for large gatherings. I think those pots are antiques now. I haven't seen any of them around in awhile.

Thanks for sharing. Sounds so easy. Will be trying this

Loving the at home series! That was so nice and personal. She’s a really good cook, I can tell! Does not skimp on flavor. You’re so right Julia! Salt and lime go long way. Thank you 🙏🏼

I just recently started doing my rice in my pressure cooker, that was a game changer!

Thanks Julia. I was looking an easy way to bake my rice, and being a hopeless man in kitchen which I am, your kitchen vlog did the magic for me. Hope my baked rice with help of your vlog turns out good! Thanks!!

The lighting and video quality of this video were really good.

I’m trying this for sure! Thanks!

Very cool. Due to my health & mobility, your recipe (scaled down) offers me a better option for meals with rice. Very cool. Thanks

Rice is a staple in my home we have it nearly every day lol thanks for the video I love cooks country

Great to know! And really like the addition of lime

im so glad i just thought of this idea of making my food from the oven instead of stove top especially for the summer. its much healther and more convienient.