
Language: English
Description: Red rice is rice which is dried and ground and coloured deep purplish red with a mould, Monascus purpureus. It is used to flavour dishes made from fish and cheese and to make red rice wine.
Latin: Oryza sativa
See foods and dishes: Camargue red rice
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