Sentences with phrase «aquatic grass»

The first thing (and many of you already know this), wild rice isn't actually a rice - it's an annual aquatic grass.

NOT made from rice, but a wild aquatic grass originally grown in lakes, particularly in the Minnesota area.

«They are followed by aquatic grasses that need to grow extremely fast to surpass the rising floods and then die off during the receding - water period.»

Some cool facts about wild rice: it's technically an aquatic grass, not a grain, and it's native to North America.

Wild rice is an aquatic grass, not a grain, but we call it rice because it looks and cooks like all other types of rice.

I never thought to make a nice side salad from it, nor did I realize it was aquatic grass.

Your comments here, though, perpetuate a myth I see in many wild rice recipes, i.e., that wild rice isn't actually «rice,» but rather a seed of an aquatic grass.

Well, rice IS an aquatic grass and both wild rice and «regular» rice belong to the same botanical genus.

Despite that wild rice looks like rice and cooks like other types of rice, it is actually the seed of an aquatic grass that grows in various lakes, most of which are found in Canada or Minnesota.