Husky Rice

Just when you think you have heard it all, there comes another simple thing you have never ever heard of or even remotely imagined...I was so surprised to see the purple potato.

Then I thought, hey why don’t I turn the limelight onto the coloured rice I eat. Introducing…tada…wholesome "Kerala red rice" or Kerala Double boiled rice (I am not sure whether par-boiled is same as double boiled)Names: Kerala kuthari, Chambavari, Palakkadan Matta (കുത്തരി, ചമ്പാവരി, പാലക്കാടന്‍ മട്ട )

I think only people from Kerala eat this. Once you get accustomed to this, which we are -- 'forcefully' fed by our adoring mothers with ghee and mashed dal and veggies from your 6 months of life, you can never eat 'white rice' and feel satisfied. The red rice I eat is boiled with the husk and thus it maintains its fiber. White rice is scrubbed and polished and made hip, but sadly it loses all its nutrients. But the fun part is when my cousins visit us from outside Kerala; they find it very difficult to eat.

“Too big, too big” they would fuss… Ah! Sissies!

(I have seen Bhutanese red rice at Organic Food Stores. No, No, we are not the same dear!)