The Red Rice Mistake That Makes It Mushy — Grandma's Fix

Now baby, don't you stir that red rice to death. If your Charleston red rice keeps comin' out mushy, gummy, all stuck together in one sad clump, it was never you, and it sure wasn't the rice. It's a couple little things nobody told you. In this video, I'm showin' you the old Gullah Geechee way we made red rice back home in the Lowcountry: separate, fluffy grains stained deep red, smoky and savory, every single time. This is a Gullah Geechee dish, baby. it came up out of the rice fields of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, carried down through my people, and it's the heart of a Lowcountry Sunday table.