wild rice question

[rawlinda_sue]

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[kaybee]

warm water is ok....but i dont think the wild rice is actually raw, or most of it at least. raw fooders used to think it was, but i guess we were wrong actually. i would go ahead and use this as a good transition recipe anyway if you want to... hey, alot of raw foods recipes use maple syrup, miso, nutritional yeast, and tamari or nama shoyu, which are also not raw, so.... your call.

[kaybee]

maybe contact purely delicious to double-check... ive heard there is one specific kind of wild rice that is harvested by native americans still that has a company and that that one is really raw...but i dunno if you would get the same texture or softness from that particular rice...

btw, ive found sprouted, hulled barley to be a good substitute for REGULAR (i.e. brown) rice in recipes...

[SheLovesToEat]

I have the summer issue of Purely Delicious, and it has a recipe for Wild Rice Stuffed Mushrooms that look soooo good. They bloom the rice for 24 hours in warm water - is this considered raw? :confused:

NO ! wild rice is NOT raw. i only know this because i checked into it to make sure. i had a craving for it but found out its not raw.

[KaitAnne]

btw, ive found sprouted, hulled barley to be a good substitute for REGULAR (i.e. brown) rice in recipes...


Is the barley you get in the regular supermarket the raw kind that can be sprouted? Or do you have to specifically get raw barley from a health food store or online?

[kaybee]

not sure about the stuff from the supermarket. you need HULLED barley, sometimes also called POT barley...but not pearled barley. pearled barley is white and is so polished that it wont sprout. pot/hulled barley is still brownish. i got it at the health shop but it was cheap. i think the stuff in packages at the regular supermarket is probably pearled and wont sprout, but if your grocerty store has a health section, you might find it there. it was cheap about 1.50 a pound.