If you’ve ever wondered why restaurant rice is so much better, the reasons are many; chefs often select higher-quality grains, cook them with butter, and heat them in either a specialised cooker or an oven.

Those added steps exist because, like perfect-cooking eggs and chicken, achieving tender, fluffy rice on the hob is actually pretty hard.

But if you don’t have a rice cooker, fret not.

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