Brown PDO Sant'Andrea Rice - Guerrini

The rice Integral actually does not identify a variety of rice, but a phase of the rice processing. The Guerrini Integral, PDO certified "Riso di Baraggia Biellese e Vercellese" proposes it in the Sant'Andrea variety. 

Integral rice, said that rice is a stop at the first stage processing, that is peeled (the skin that protects the kernel) is removed. What you get is already brown rice, or rice semigrezzo, and before being packaged must still pass in sieves, cleaners and an optical sorter to remove all of the defects and impurities.

The integral rice has a cooking time of 45 minutes (30 min. in the pressure cooker, all have more or less the whole cooking time), it must always be first boiled, and in any case there should never be roasted (as it is done for the white rice in preparing a good risotto). This is because the outer part of the grain (ie the integral rich in fiber, vitamins and mineral salts) is very hard and the broth or the cooking water takes more time to penetrate the grain and cook well inside.

RECOMMENDED FOR:

Boiled rice, salads, soups.