Sawaddee ka welcome to the fourth episode of my five colors of Thai
rice series now I'm super excited about this one because some people have been
calling this rice Thailand superfood and it's actually the only kind of rice
my mom would eat now she's all white rice completely onto rice very rice
so rice berry is not a berry it's the name of Thailand's new black rice varieties so technically
I should call it rice berry rice but brevity I'm just going to call it rice very so rice area was
developed out of a crossbreeding between two Thai rice varieties and started gaining popularity
because in addition to the vitamins and the minerals and the fiber that we would expect in
whole grain rice it's also high in omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants and as my mother could tell
you it's still soft enough and fragrant enough that it works well as a white rice substitute for
people who are looking for healthier options so as of the making of this video it may be a little
harder to find Rice berry outside of Thailand however I have a feeling that's going to change
in the near future but when you are looking for it at the store sometimes would be called Rice
berry but I've also seen it called black jasmine rice even though it's not technically a jasmine
rice but check that it is the product of Thailand because there are actually a few other varieties
of black rice out there that is not from Thailand but it may look similar to rice berry however this
is very important I really want to point this out there is another Thai black rice that looks
exactly like rice berry but it is not even close to the same thing and that is just high black
sticky rice okay so this is high black sticky rice often labeled as Thai black sweet rice or
Thai black glutinous rice I can't actually tell by looking at the grains I mean there are very
slight minor differences but black sticky rice is much chewier and it actually doesn't work as
a white rice substitute in Thailand we use this mostly for desserts for which I have a couple of
videos you want to check them out so cooking rice bearing is exactly the same as you would tie red
rice which we talked about in the previous video if you missed it I'll put the link right up here
but in short I use one part rice to one and a half parts water and if you have time with the rice sit
in the water for about an hour or so before you turn it on it'll be even better and now when you
are done with it that's it of it would be black and beautiful almost a really deep purple color
now rice berry does have a unique aroma to it kind of hard to describe but if you know what
Thai black sticky rice smells like maybe you've had a sticky rice pudding it's the exact same
smell but the flavor is quite neutral it's just that interesting aroma which I actually really
like but if you want to switch from white rice - rice berry but you don't want too drastic of a
flavor change you can definitely mix half-and-half you can cook it together in a pot definitely check
out the website posters I'll give you lots of tips for how to make it perfect or what you can do is
freeze the rice berry like we talked about reheat it in the microwave it only takes 90 seconds and
then distr it into your white rice and you end up with something that looks like chocolate chip
rice but that way you know you don't have to mess with cooking two different Rice's and you
can add sort of as much or as little as you want and that is it for the fourth episode of my five
colors of Thai rice series now check out the website post for this video for sure because
I've got a bonus recipe for rice fairy congee for you it's so good and so beautiful now for
the next video the last of the series I'm not going to tell you what it is but a hint is it's
a staple rice of Thai people in the north and the Northeast so see you then so I think ah