Healthy Gut Rice
Did you know you can hack your rice to decrease the glycemic index (sugar spike) and reduce calories and turn it into friendly food for your gut bacteria. Win Win Win!
To do this you just need to cook the rice in water as you normally would but add coconut oil. The coconut oil binds to the digestible starch in the rice and it forms a different form of starch. Then by cooling the rice for 12-24 hours in the fridge it promotes even more resistant starch. Humans don’t digest resistant starch so it doesn’t raise blood glucose like normally cooked rice does.
Ingredients:
1.5 cups of water
1 cup of organic white rice
2-3 tablespoons of coconut oil
Methods:
Rinse rice
Add water to saucepan and then rice
Add coconut oil
Bring to the boil, turn off, place the lid on and cook through the absorption method for 20 minutes.
Add more coconut oil and stir through
Place in a glass or ceramic container and put in fridge for 12-24 hours.
Enjoy small servings alongside your favourite dishes, as sushi, even as dessert.
You can reheat the rice and it is still a resistant starch.
Bring to the boil.
Enjoy x