Question:Easy Rice Pudding

[juliarose96]

Easy Rice Pudding so, this might be a silly question, by when a recipe calls for 2 cups of cooked rice -- do they mean 2 cups after its cooked? or 2 cups before its cooked? Uncooked rice has a far smaller volume than cooked rice and I'm a little confused

[duonyte]

When a recipe specifies "cooked rice", it means rice that has already been cooked - measured after cooking. So this recipe is great to have handy to use up leftover rice.

If the rice was meant to be measured before it was cooked, it would listed as just "rice" or sometimes as "raw rice"

[Dee514]

The recipe is written as "2 cups cooked white rice" which means cook up the rice (about 1 cup because it usually doubles when cooked), and then measure out 2 cups.

If the recipe had said "2 cups white rice, cooked" you would measure out 2 cups of rice and then cook it.