Hypothetically, let's say you haven't used your rice cooker in a while,

[jtuck004]

so you haul out the Zojirushi and fire it up, but you forgot the proportions you used to use and now you have a lot more rice than
you planned on. Cups and cups of the stuff.

What would you add it to, or add to it?

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Cooked rice freezes beautifully and makes better fried rice than fresh cooked.

[jtuck004]

2. I will try that. How do you package it? In small containers, and then

toss it in the pan frozen, or thaw it a bit first?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I use meal sized, air tight containers. No need to thaw.

The rice separates easily when refrigerated or frozen.

[jtuck004]

4. Great. Thank you. n/t

[kentauros]

7. When I freeze it, I spread it out on a half-sheet pan.

It fits about the same width as my freezer and I keep it in there only a few hours. Once it's frozen, then I crumble it to get rid of clumps and just put it in whatever containers I have. Gallon-sized ziplocks work well

[hobbit709]

5. It's always better to use day old rice for fried rice.

Fried rice was originally a dish made of leftovers.

[The empressof all]

6. Rice Pudding is always nice with fresh fruit

There are lots of recipes on the web even for Vegans.

Also extra rice is nice to mix with ground meat and chopped veg to stuff other veg. Peppers, tomatoes, zuchinni.

You can make an easy mocked stuff cabbage by layering tomato sauce, shredded cabbage, browned ground meat, and rice in your rock pot.

[azurnoir]

8. make fried rice with it let it get slightly dried out frist

add what left over meat you may have if you wish along with veggi's like bean sprouts, mushrooms, pea pods, shredded carrot, what ever strikes your fancy

[msanthrope]

9. For fried rice I always put the leftover rice on a wide plate in the fridge for a few hours.

Dries out perfectly and works like a charm.