I used to think I had to cut rice to be healthy.
But it turns out—it’s not about restriction. It’s about balance.
These are 3 ways I upgrade my rice to make it more blood sugar–friendly, PCOS-friendly, and actually satisfying!
#RECIPE below!
🧡 Quinoa Rice
Ingredients (3-4 servings):
¾ cup white rice (short-grain or medium-grain)
¾ cup quinoa
1 ¾ cup water or bone broth
💚 Barley Rice
Ingredients (3-4 servings):
¾ cup white rice (short-grain or medium-grain)
¾ cup barley (soaked overnight or a few hours)
1 ¾ cups water or bone broth
💜 Black Soybean Purple Rice
Ingredients (3-4 servings):
1 ½ cups white rice (short-grain or medium-grain)
2 tablespoons black rice
Handful of black soybeans (soaked overnight)
1 ¾ cups water
🍚 Cooking the Rice (Rice Cooker vs. Stovetop)
Rice Cooker: Rinse & transfer the rice mix and water/bone broth to your rice cooker and cook on the white rice/glutinous rice setting.
Stovetop: Rinse & transfer the rice mix and water/bone broth to a pot. Bring i...