I purchased a 5 lb bag of Red Cargo Rice. It comes from Thailand - I bought it some time ago so I don't recall the price.
From what I could tell it was about as healthy as brown rice, so I thought it would be a colorful addition to brown rice.
It is a pretty color. Problem is it stains. I cooked some in the microwave in a white Pyrex Casserole dish and it stained the dish! Even when I was rinsing the rice I could see the water turning a bit reddish.
The red rice tastes similar to brown - but it has a bitter edge to it. Probably mixed with other things you would not notice the bitterness so much. Though I did make some rice pudding with it - and it did have that bitter flavor.
Like I do with brown rice, I soaked the red rice for about 6 hours. This cut down on the slow cooking time.
Today I made some chicken enchiladas and added some cooked red rice to it - a good combination.
When looking at rice at the world food store - I was tempted to buy one of those huge bags of rice that are packed in cool zippered cloth bags... But I don't think we'd eat that much rice in a year...
From what I could tell it was about as healthy as brown rice, so I thought it would be a colorful addition to brown rice.
It is a pretty color. Problem is it stains. I cooked some in the microwave in a white Pyrex Casserole dish and it stained the dish! Even when I was rinsing the rice I could see the water turning a bit reddish.
The red rice tastes similar to brown - but it has a bitter edge to it. Probably mixed with other things you would not notice the bitterness so much. Though I did make some rice pudding with it - and it did have that bitter flavor.
Like I do with brown rice, I soaked the red rice for about 6 hours. This cut down on the slow cooking time.
Today I made some chicken enchiladas and added some cooked red rice to it - a good combination.
When looking at rice at the world food store - I was tempted to buy one of those huge bags of rice that are packed in cool zippered cloth bags... But I don't think we'd eat that much rice in a year...
