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Steamed Rice

Steamed Rice: a sourced backpacking stove recipe with measured ingredients and cooking instructions. Check ingredient storage instructions before your trip.

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Added October 9, 2026
Source: Recipe: Wikibooks contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); extracted from linked revision; camping suitability and safety notes added. Photo: Ocdp, CC0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meshi_001.jpg; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en. Photo illustrates this dish on its source recipe page; not a Wild10 cooking-test photo.
Steamed Rice

Photo: Ocdp · CC0. Source-recipe food photograph; not a Wild10 cooking-test photo.

Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

  • •1 cup (250 ml or 8.5 fl oz) dry rice
  • •2 cups water
  • •¼ teaspoon salt (optional)

Instructions

  1. 1Wash the rice if desired.
  2. 2Place the rice in a deep saucepan with lid. Add salt if using, and stir.
  3. 3Bring rice to a boil over high heat. Stir.
  4. 4Reduce heat to low and cover the pot. Cook on low for 12 minutes.
  5. 5Uncover rice and serve.

Camp tips

  • • This formula can be easily scaled up or down. The universal rule with cooking steamed rice is that the proportion of water should be double that of the rice. If you use one cup of rice you must use two cups of water. If you use two cups of rice you must use four cups of water.
  • • 1 cup dry rice is enough for three adults.
  • • Use potable water, wash hands, and pack out scraps. Never cook inside a tent. Check local fire restrictions.

Food safety & trail facts

Use potable water, wash hands, and pack out scraps. Never cook inside a tent. Check local fire restrictions.

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