| Search Results For 'rice' |
| Word |
Definition |
| arborio rice |
A short-grain rice with a hard core, white color and mild flavor; it becomes creamy when cooked and is used for risotto. |
| Chinese Black Forbidden Rice |
A premium medium-grain rice grown in China and once the exclusive grain of Chinese emperors. When cooked it is not sticky like other black rices and has a nutty taste and rich purple color. |
| converted rice |
Ice that is pressure-steamed and dried before milling to remove surface starch and help retain nutrients; has a pale beige color and the same flavor as white rice; also known as parboiled rice. |
| instant rice |
Fully cooked and flash-frozen rice; when rehydrated, it can lack flavor and be gritty; also known as quick-cooking rice. |
| Popcorn Rice |
A specialty long |
| Rice |
To push cooked food through a perforated kitchen tool called a ricer. The resulting food looks like rice. |
| wild rice |
The grain of a reed-like aquatic plant (Zizania aquatica) unrelated to rice; grown in the United States and Canada. The grains are long, slender and black, with a distinctive earthy, nutty flavor; available in three grades: giant (a very long grain and the best quality), fancy (a medium grain and of lesser quality) and select (a short grain). |
