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Red rice

Rice with a reddish-brown bran, in the Himalaya mostly a semi-milled short-grain rice from Bhutan; nutty and slightly sticky.

Red rice is sold in health food shops, organic stores, well-stocked supermarkets and online, the Bhutanese kind mostly online. It cooks faster than most brown rice and turns soft and slightly sticky.

Substitute:

Red Camargue rice or short-grain brown rice comes close in nutty flavour; brown rice takes longer, stays more separate and lacks the red colour.

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