Black Forbidden Rice

This black rice is amazing. It has a wonderful nutty flavor. Sauteed shallots and garlic with the rice and finished with lemon. Foodie heaven!

This rice is so nutty,The texture is like nothing I've never eaten--It was absolutely one of the best rices I've ever tasted-a lil salt & pepper & you're set

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Makes nice pudding. When mixed with milk the color is purplish. Delicious, nutty taste. They pop in your mouth while chewing.

Try this: mix and cook 1 cup white rice and 1/4 cup Black Forbidden Rice. Add handful of pine nuts and dried black currants, 2 teaspoons or more ground black pepper, 2 teaspoons sugar, dried mint and parsley, after rice is cooked. Stuff green peppers, white cabbage leaves or grape leaves in 1/2 cup olive oil, and water just enough to cover them. Cook on very low heat, covered about 30 minutes after it starts steaming, or until all the liquid is absorbed and a little oil left at the bottom. Serve and enjoy cold or at room temperature with a lemon slice.

Cabbage: You have to cut and pull out the thick stem before cooking the whole thing in a big pot of water. Stem part must be down,cook about 10 minutes. After it cools, peel the leaves carefully without breaking them and start stuffing, rolling like Chinese rolls. Grape leaves are available here at Amazon and in markets. Do one vegetable at a time and see which one you like. Have fun

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Ask a Chinese friend about "forbidden rice" (禁米), unless they are history buff like myself, they will give you a puzzled look. The term refers to an obscure trade policy during Manchurian dynasty, not an exotic rice. I will not going to bore you with history here.

The story about emperor depriving commoners of red rice is a hoax made in America, like the legion of fortune cookies. Most fortune cookies are made in a wholesome factory near Atlanta. We trust that fortune cookies are safe to eat. "Forbidden rice?"

There is a red rice in China, dark red, close to red bean. The color varies from gran to gran. Its thick bran provides a pleasant nutty flavor and al dente texture. The color does not come off easily. You can get them from Chinese grocery store.

What is sold as "forbidden rice" at Amazon and Costco has a uniformed black to deep purple color. It appears to be rice over-milled, dyed, and polished. Drop a few grains in water, you can see color coming off. And the color tent to sink to the bottom. That is a easy tell tail. When cooked, the favor and texture of bran are absent. If they use red rice, they have milled away its bran to make the rice easy to dye.

There is nothing wrong with using food coloring. But is the ink FDA approved? We do not know. The label does not say.

I am returning mine to Costco. I will ask Costco to pull it off the shelf.

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