NOT made from rice, but
a wild aquatic grass originally grown in lakes, particularly in the Minnesota area.
Not exact matches
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.
The first thing (and many of you already know this),
wild rice isn't actually a rice - it's an annual
aquatic grass.
On the botanical status of
wild rice: Patrick, you're right that «regular rice» is an
aquatic annual
grass, Oryza sativa.
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.
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.