Why should rice be washed before it is cooked?
Rice is one of the most important components of the most famous Arab dishes such as mandi, mansaf and Majboos, and because rice has all this importance in Arab cooking, the housewife must be alerted to a very basic issue, which is the need to wash the rice very well before cooking it. According to the method.
The reason is that the husks of the different types of rice contain a percentage of the carcinogenic arsenic, according to some American laboratory reports, and certainly this will not appear in one meal but rather it has a cumulative effect, so do not let that make you feel terrified, but you just have to start washing it before cooking it for any meal, through Immerse it in water, stir it well and filter it, and repeat the process until the washing water becomes clear.
