How to Cook Healthy Sorghum Rice

Sorghum is now starting to be looked at as an alternative food other than rice. This local food is widely grown in Java, Nusa Tenggara Islands, and Sulawesi. Quoted from Healthline, sorghum is rich in B vitamins, magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron, phosphorus. In addition, sorghum is also high in fiber, antioxidants, and protein. In the last year or so, sorghum has started to gain popularity among adherents of a healthy gluten-free lifestyle.

There are two types of sorghum that are commonly sold in e-commerce, namely red and white. Kompas.com buys peeled white sorghum rice. How to cook sorghum is very easy, you can cook it using a rice cooker like normal rice, here’s how:

 

  1. The first step is to wash the sorghum rice twice with clean running water. Drain the water.
  2. Continue by continuing the sorghum that has been in the rice cooker, look at the water with a dose of twice the cooking water for rice.
  3. Turn on the cook button on the rice cooker. After the sorghum cooking water comes to a boil, open the lid of the rice cooker and mix well.
  4. When the water is about to dry, stir again the sorghum. This sorghum rice easily sticks to the cooking pot, so it’s best to stir it regularly.
  5. Taste the sorghum, when it is soft and the rice cooker water has turned off the rice cooker cooking button.
  6. Stir well so that the hot steam comes out and open and close the rice cooker until the sorghum is slightly cold. Sorghum is ready to be eaten with various side dishes.

 

Tips: store sorghum in a tightly closed container. Just like rice, sorghum is favored by lice. So you should buy sorghum with the amount adjusted for family consumption.

 

 

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