perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
grains of aquatic grass of North America
Is the seed of a plume-topped wild aquatic grass found mainly in the North Central United States and Canada. It is expensive due to short supply, hand gathering, thrashing, and is often mixed with other types of rice or grain. For more information, visit www.gourmethouserice.com.
A North American grass, cooked like rice and often served with game.
Popular for its nutty flavor and chewy texture but not really a rice at all. Wild rice is a long grained marsh grass that's native to the Great Lakes region and traditionally harvested by native Indians. It's very expensive and usually combined with other rices or grains.
an exotic, dark-brown grain from marsh grass with a nutty flavor; usually used in combination with other grains
A plant from the same family as rice, but with a gray and brown grain that is about twice the length of ordinary rice grains. Wild rice has a unique, almost nutty flavor. Used to stuff game or poultry and served as a side dish.
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
The four species of wild rice compose the genus Zizania (common names: Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats), a group of grasses that grow in shallow water in small lakes and slow-flowing streams. Often, only the flowering head of wild rice rises above the water. True rice, genus Oryza, is also a grass; the two genera Oryza and Zizania are closely related, sharing the tribe Oryzeae.