rice files.

bomba

[ SHORT-GRAIN, NON-STICKY, FIRM ]

If you’re cooking paella, then bomba is the only game in town. Arriving on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle East a few centuries back, bomba presents as a pearly white, almost spherical rice with superhuman powers of absorption. However, despite taking in two to three times the amount of water of most rices, bomba comes out the other end firm and intact, giving your paella that distinctive soft-yet-pleasingly-chewy mouthfeel.

basmati

[ LONG-GRAIN, NON-STICKY, AROMATIC ]

Basmati rice is one of the world’s most widely consumed rices, not simply because India eats so much of the stuff, but also because it’s the default rice for many in the Western world, too; it’s expected that the annual global basmati market will soon surpass $17 billion. On the plate, basmati is known