Paella Rice???

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Hey guys 'n' gals

I hope everyone has been enjoying the festivities.

Does anyone have any thoughts on which is the best rice to use for cooking Paella?

Cheers

Alex

You need a short, round-grained rice. Ideal is Bomba rice which is from Spain, but it can be hard to
find. Lacking that use a rice you would use for risotto such as arborio or carnaroli.

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Quoted message said:

Hey guys 'n' gals

I hope everyone has been enjoying the festivities.

Does anyone have any thoughts on which is the best rice to use for cooking Paella?

Cheers

Alex

You need a short, round-grained rice. Ideal is Bomba rice which is from Spain, but it can be hard
to find. Lacking that use a rice you would use for risotto such as arborio or carnaroli.

Cheers, how about calasparra?

Alex said:

Hey guys 'n' gals

I hope everyone has been enjoying the festivities.

Does anyone have any thoughts on which is the best rice to use for cooking Paella?

Cheers

Alex

I use pearl rice. It is short, rounded, very similar to rices used to make risotto.

In fact, that is the only rice I will use for risotto. Inexpensive and works well. Why pay
exorbitant prices for arborio or basmati when plain pearl rice will do?

And yes, I have tried both arborio and basmati.

Bert

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I use pearl rice. It is short, rounded, very similar to rices used to make risotto.

Indeed. I get pearl rice at the Latin stores, and always have got fine paella out of it.

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In fact, that is the only rice I will use for risotto. Inexpensive and works well. Why pay
exorbitant prices for arborio or basmati when plain pearl rice will do?

And yes, I have tried both arborio and basmati.

Certainly, using basmati rice for paella or risotto is a very ill-advised maneuver. Just the
wrong universe.

Neil

arborio

Alex said:

Hey guys 'n' gals

I hope everyone has been enjoying the festivities.

Does anyone have any thoughts on which is the best rice to use for cooking Paella?

Cheers

Alex

Alex said:

Peter Aitken said:

You need a short, round-grained rice. Ideal is Bomba rice which is from Spain, but it can be
hard to find. Lacking that use a rice you would use for risotto such as arborio or carnaroli.

Cheers, how about calasparra?

Bomba rice that Peter mentioned, *is* one of the two types of Calasparra rice, the other being
Sollana. Both are wonderful for paella, indeed. However, paella is a Valencia dish, whereas
Calasparra is in the neighbouring Murcia. The traditional rice in paella is Valencia rice...

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