Long grain variety of Thai Jasmine Rice

Jasmine rice, often labeled ‘scented’ or ‘fragrant’ rice, is a long-grain, white rice from Thailand. When cooked, the grains are soft, moist and seductively aromatic with a nutty flavors similar to that of Indian basmati.

The Thailand northeast is the main rice-growing region and home of the famous Thai jasmine rice. The Northeast region’s saline and sandy soil produces the highest quality grain. Thai jasmine rice comes for a traditional plant that is commercially viable only when it is grow in its home soil. More than 20 percent of Thailand’s total rice production is jasmine rice.

With its sweet aroma, soft texture and delicate flavors – is more like a gourmet feature that sides dish, and in Thailand it is both delicacy and staple.

It has been harvested for more than six thousand years and constitutes more than 50 percent and as much as 80 percent of the total calories consumed by its people.

It was first offered to Thai farmers in 1959 after a research effort in the mid=-1950s to find the ‘best’ of the country’s jasmine rice.

Long grain variety of Thai Jasmine Rice

What is aromatic rice?

Aromatic rice is generally used to prepare dishes such as polau and briyani which are served on special occasions. Aromatic rice have medium to long grains.

The research established that aromatic rices have aroma because of the natural chemicals that give them a distinctive fragrance or aroma. This rice has a “pop-cornlike” aroma and is marketed under various trade names.

Aromatic rice has more flavor than the other varieties. Basmati and jasmine are respectively the most important aromatic rices in the world. Jasmine 85 a low amylase long-grain aromatic introduction, which was released to fill an ethnic market using imported Thai Jasmine.

Basmati is a native to Pakistan, India and the Middle East. This is fine-grained aromatic rice which cooks dry and fluffy an shows extreme kernel elongation during cooking.

Most of aromatic rice varieties share the same aroma gene, badh2. Farmers have rice containing this gene since thousands of years.
What is aromatic rice?