Semi-Processed Organic Rosa Marchetti Rice

Fine traditional Italian variety with medium grains – Partially blanched, cooked for 20-25 minutes

The “scratched” grain that soaks up the seasoning: all the flavour of rustic rice, with the consistency of a champion

Una Garlanda's Organic Semi-Processed Marchetti Pink Rice

Organic Semi-Finished Rosa Marchetti Rice is the most authentic version of this prized traditional Italian medium-grain variety: the partial blanching leaves a slight "scratch" on the grain, allowing it to absorb seasonings while remaining firm. A precious balance between whole grain and white rice: more nutritious and richer in character than refined rice, quicker and more versatile than whole grain, with a cooking time of 20-25 minutes (just 10 in a pressure cooker). Grown by Una Garlanda in Rovasenda, in the Baraggia Vercellese area, without fertilizers or pesticides, with seeds reproduced on the farm since 2001 and packaged exclusively in paper.
 
 
 

The roots of this semi-processed rice are deep in tradition

Before industrial bleaching made rice white and uniform, this is exactly what it was eaten on the tables of the rice paddies: semi-hulled rice, milled just enough in the small mills in the villages, retaining part of the bud and its outer layer. It was the rice of the rice weeders and rice-growing families, the rice used in the panisse and rice and cabbage soups that marked the winters between Vercelli and Novara: nutritious, flavorful, able to withstand long cooking in the pot. Una Garlanda's semi-finished Rosa Marchetti preserves precisely this expertise: a measured process, involving 16 phases in the company's rice mill, that takes away little but leaves much.
 
 
 

Choosing Semi-Processed Rosa Marchetti Rice means taking care of yourself.

Partial whitening preserves part of the grain's outer layer, which contains fiber, B vitamins, and minerals that are largely lost in fully refined rice: a clever compromise between digestibility and nutritional richness. Naturally gluten-free, it provides slow-release complex carbohydrates, ideal for sustained energy and increased satiety. Added to all this is a unique supply chain: no fertilization, no pesticides, wild weeds managed with crop rotation and green mulch, and multi-residue analyses that demonstrate a truly clean rice, certified from seed to plate.
 
 
 

How to Best Use: Organic Semi-Processed Marchetti Pink Rice

• FARMHOUSE SOUPS – It is the perfect rice for the slow soups of the rice tradition: try it in a rice and cabbage soup with Organic Savoy Cabbage, or in a rice and lentil soup with the Organic Lentils from Val d'Orcia: the scratched grain is flavored in the broth without ever falling apart.
• RUSTIC RISOTTOS THAT DRINK UP THE SAUCE – The scratching absorbs the seasonings like no white rice: mix it with the Tomato sauce with organic ricotta and flakes of Organic aged Caciocavallo reserve for a risotto with a full, rustic flavour.
• TIMBALES AND BAKED RICE – Its compactness makes it ideal for oven-baked preparations: a timbale with Organic Tomato Pulp e Fresh Organic Sausages It remains grainy and tasty even when reheated the next day.

The Producer: A Garland

Una Garlanda is the Stocchi family's organic rice farm in Rovasenda (Vercelli). Three generations of rice growers, using the green mulch method, cultivate traditional varieties without chemicals or fertilizers, among 15.000 native plants and rice paddies that have returned to being living ecosystems. More than organic: biodiverse.
 
 
 

Ingredients

Semi-processed organic Rosa Marchetti rice.
 
 
 

Traceability: from seed to plate

The rice: Rosa Marchetti variety grown in Rovasenda (VC), Piedmont, on 46,85 hectares; flood irrigation with water from the Sesia River and the Marchiazza stream; seed reproduced on the farm since 2001; mechanical broadcast seeding; no fertilization; weed management through crop rotation, forage crops, green mulching, and crushing of cyperaceae; no phytosanitary treatments performed.

The processing: carried out in Rovasenda (VC) in the company rice mill in 16 phases, with partial bleaching of the grain, from drying with direct and indirect fumes up to the optical sorter 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: 350 kcal
• Fat: 1,5 g
• Carbohydrates: 75 g
• of which sugars: 0,5 g
• Fiber: 2,5 g
• Protein: 7,5 g
• Salt: traces

Nutritional values ​​estimated based on average reference data for semi-milled rice.
 
 
 

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