Last time I was at Trader Joe's, I saw they had several products made with sprouted brown rice. I'd recently been reading that sprouted grains are much more nutritious than unsprouted, which I guess makes botanical sense. And one of these products was just too preposterous to pass up:
shelf-stable prepared ready-to-eat sprouted brown rice in a plastic bowl with sesame-seaweed sprinkles.
I mean really. That is possibly the yuppiest, health-nut-on-the-go, 21st century food you could ever dream up. So I bought it, for the sheer entertainment value.
And I'll be damned if it wasn't absolutely delicious. Nutty and chewy, with that distinctly japanese taste of nori and sesame and salt.
I'm unlikely to buy this much, because of all the packaging it entails, but I will certainly be much more likely to buy some regular uncooked sprouted brown rice, cook it, and whip up some seaweed-sesame-salt furikake of my own to mix into it. Yums.
Posted by foodnerd at May 20, 2008 10:50 AMI can't agree with you more about the delicious taste of sprouted brown rice, also known as germinated brown rice. It has the perfect chew with a slight nutty flavor.
Not only is this rice delicious but it's also healthy for you too! This type of rice is HUGE in Japan and Korea because they understand that regularly eating this rice promotes better health.
Check out my website www.solgrains.com for more information on germinated brown rice.
Posted by: Kevin at June 20, 2008 07:24 PMI can't agree with you more about the delicious taste of sprouted brown rice, also known as germinated brown rice. It has the perfect chew with a slight nutty flavor.
Not only is this rice delicious but it's also healthy for you too! This type of rice is HUGE in Japan and Korea because they understand that regularly eating this rice promotes better health.
Check out my website www.solgrains.com for more information on germinated brown rice.
Posted by: Kevin at June 20, 2008 07:28 PMJust finished a bowl of it myself. Wonderful flavor! I just bought some Rishi green tea that I'm think about using to make some of my own sprouted brown rice, but it's fairly labor intensive I think. I'll check out your site, Kevin!
Posted by: Kenny at September 15, 2009 01:40 PM