What makes jasmine rice different from "regular" rice? It always seems to taste so much better.?!
What makes jasmine rice different from "regular" rice? It always seems to taste so much better.?
I have had it several times at Thai restaurants. They don't seem to be doing anything different or adding anything. It just seems that it's because it's jasmine rice.
Answers:
I am a former chef and worked in the Far East, it is called that because of it floral Jasimine like aroma ( due to the fermentation process), like basmati it is a specialy cared for and treated rice, and I hate to burst the bubble of the one respondant as it is not short grain, it is a long grain style rice.
And like basmati it needs to be rinse and cooked slowly and allow to rest, for fluffy and non sticky rice, were the Japanese rice is short grained and there preference is for stickier rice and they do not rinse there rice except for sushi.