What is the difference between normal rice and basmati rice?!
Answers:
They are different breeds od the plants.
Basmati has a nicer taste.
Basmati (Hindi: ??????, Kannada: ???????, Urdu: ??????, Telugu: ???????, Bengali: ??????) is a variety of long grain rice grown in India and Pakistan, notable for its fragrance and delicate, nuanced flavour. Its name means "the fragrant one" in Sanskrit, but it can also mean "the soft rice." India and Pakistan are the largest cultivators and exporters of this rice; it is primarily grown through paddy field farming in the Punjab region.
The grains of basmati rice are longer than most other types of rice. Cooked grains of Basmati rice are characteristically free flowing rather than sticky, as with most long-grain rice. Cooked basmati rice can be uniquely identified by its fragrance. Basmati rice is available in two varieties - white and brown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati
Non- basmati rice comes in all kinds of different shapes and sizes. Some are long and slender, some are short and thick, some are like beads, and some may be round. None have the same characteristics as basmati rice i.e. they do not have both the aroma and post cooking elongation. Only some of the long slender rice is shaped like basmati rice and may have either the aroma or the elongation but not both.
Basmati rice has both and elongation post cooking and no other rice in the world has these characteristics in combination. The taste is also different with great aromatic smell that drews you in. Once the taste buds get used to basmati rice no other rice will be likened. But since the yield of basmati rice, per acre of land, is less than half of that of non- basmati rice and because of higher inputs - basmati rice has become unaffordable for most people.
I do not know what you mean by normal rice. There is brown rice which is not as refined as white rice, i.e. it has the outer layer, etc. They say it is good for you. There is long grain rice, short grain rice and then the instant rice. Instant rice is highly refined. Less nutrition there. There is rice that is sticky when it is cooked, and rice that stays fluffy and does not stick together.
I do not know if Basamati comes in brown. The difference I have seen is the fancy container, and the price.
I love rice. I had oriental relatives and mixed oriental relatives. I developed a love for rice from them.. I cannot eat it very much right now. We had rice for breakfast when I was kid, ate it plain and/or with eggs. I know you did not ask that, but if you like rice, you might try this.
I love rice and eggs. Isn;t that strange, and rice with grilled shrimp and stir fried rice, Put lots of stir fry veggies in it. Before here I could get a huge bag of stir fry vegetables from Wal Mart for not much money at all. Yum yum, throw in a griled chicken breast that is diced up....very tasty.
This Wikipedia article gives the main differences between basmati rice (white or brown) and other rices:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati_ric…
Rice is just rice. Just like many different colours of roses.
