Organic Chinese Original Brown Rice

Historic round grain variety for conservation – Whole grain, cooking time 35-40 minutes

Winter rice: round, compact and whole, created for hot dishes that warm the body and soul.

Una Garlanda's Original Brown Chinese Rice

Chinese Originario Brown Rice is the most authentic version of this historic conservation variety, originally from China and popular in Italy since 1904. The round grain, here in its roundest and most compact form, stripped of only the husk, makes it perfect for winter and for hot dishes. Slow, thoughtful cooking—35-40 minutes (21 in a pressure cooker)—rewards with a full flavor and a firm, enveloping texture. Una Garlanda grows it in Rovasenda, in the Baraggia Vercellese area, on 9,9 hectares. The seed has been reproduced on the farm since 2008 and is certified organic, without fertilizers or pesticides. It comes in paper packaging, plastic-free.
 
 
 

The roots of this brown rice are deep in tradition

There's a hidden poetry in this grain: a variety born in China that returns, from whole grain, to the most Chinese of preparations. For over two thousand years, throughout East Asia, round rice, cooked for a long time in abundant water, has become congee, the warm porridge that ushers in winter days: a food of monasteries, convalescence, and dawn at the markets, considered by traditional medicine to be the dish that "warms the core." Even in the Italian countryside, rice boiled for a long time was a comfort on cold evenings. Chinese Originario Integrale ideally closes this circle: a seed that originated in China a century ago, preserved in the rice fields of the Baraggia, bringing the most ancient wisdom of warm rice to the table.
 
 
 

Choosing Chinese Original Brown Rice means taking care of yourself

The whole grain preserves the bud and pericarp, along with their rich fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus, and antioxidant compounds: nutrients that support intestinal regularity, prolong satiety, and deliver carbohydrate energy more gradually, with a lower glycemic index than white rice. Naturally gluten-free, cooked for a long time in hot and brothy dishes, it also becomes extremely digestible, the ideal cold-weather dish. The supply chain is certified from seed to plate: no fertilization, no pesticides, and the guarantee of a conservation variety that nourishes biodiversity while nourishing those who eat it.
 
 
 

How to Best Use: Organic Chinese Original Brown Rice

• WINTER CONGEE – The preparation that celebrates its origins: cook it for a long time in plenty of water with slices of Fresh Organic Turmeric Root until you get a creamy porridge, to be completed with a teaspoon of Long bean miso from the farms melted at the end of cooking: the hot breakfast or dinner that puts you back into the world.
• RICE AND CHESTNUT SOUP – A mountain wedding from another era: whole grain and Chestnuts from Tuscia boiled, flavoured with a leaf of Fresh Laurel: sweetness, fiber and warmth in one dish.
• BAKED RICE WITH WINTER VEGETABLES – Its firmness can withstand double cooking: boil it, season it with florets of Organic Romanesco broccoli sauté and a spoonful of Organic Vegetable Stock Soup Seasoning melted in the bottom, then gratinated: the warm cake for cold evenings.

The Producer: A Garland

Una Garlanda is the Stocchi family's organic rice farm in Rovasenda (Vercelli), the Official Custodian of ancient varieties of conservation rice: biodiverse rice paddies cultivated with green mulch, without chemicals or fertilizers, in an ecosystem of 15.000 native plants at the foot of Monte Rosa. Certified from seed to plate.
 
 
 

Ingredients

Organic Chinese Origin Brown Rice.
 
 
 

Traceability: from seed to plate

The rice: Chinese Originario variety (historical conservation variety) grown in Rovasenda (VC), Piedmont, on 9,9 hectares; flood irrigation with water from the Sesia River and the Marchiazza stream; seed reproduced on the farm since 2008, certified organic; mechanical broadcast sowing; no fertilization performed; management of spontaneous weeds through rotation, forage crops, green mulching and crushing of cyperaceae; no phytosanitary treatments performed; mechanical harvesting (35.000 kg); storage in warehouse.

The processing: carried out in Rovasenda (VC) in the company rice mill in 15 phases, without bleaching, from drying with direct and indirect fumes to the optical sorting machine and passage in CO2, with storage in a cooled warehouse.

The packaging: Manual and mechanical packaging in Rovasenda (VC) in paper suitable for contact with food (Sealing Gascogne gr. 45 + parchment), completely plastic free.
 
 
 

Nutritional Values ​​(average values ​​per 100g of product)

• Energy: 345 kcal
• Fat: 2,5 g
• Carbohydrates: 72 g
• of which sugars: 0,7 g
• Fiber: 3,5 g
• Protein: 7,5 g
• Salt: traces

Nutritional values ​​estimated based on average reference data for brown rice.
 
 
 

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