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basmati

n. A variety of long-grain rice, notable for its fragrance.

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Basmati (pronounced in South Asia) is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which is traditionally from the Indian subcontinent. As of 2014, India exported 65 percent of the overseas basmati rice market, while Pakistan accounted for the remainder, according to the state-run Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority. However, many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops.

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She would sink with triumphant delight into cheery chatter as the Basmati rice burned.

I came to a shelf holding rows of five-kilogram bags of basmati rice, my mind drifted back to an evening several months ago in a Moorish garden in the south of Spain.

I have experimented with brown basmati rice and other whole grains, good carbohydrates that can be eaten freely on the diet though never with butter, olive oil, or cheese.

The prawns turned pink as she stirred them into the spice mixture, and she dumped in cold, cooked basmati rice and a generous slurp of ketjap--Indonesian soy sauce.

As three hundred or so guests dined on noisettes of lamb with lavender and oregano on a bed of leeks, and basmati rice with pine nuts and almonds, Miriam Makeba, the legendary South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, sang.

And at the grocer I picked up basmati rice and fresh asparagus spears and real butter.

Locals came here to enjoy simple meals of basmati rice, kebabs or curried lamb.

The Qorma-i Tarkari, a dish of cauliflower, carrots and potatoes topped with lamb sauce and seasoned with turmeric, cumin, saffron and dill over basmati rice, was delicious.

Rowan began stirring again thoughtfully before pouring the contents of the pan into a large bowl and straining basmati rice into another while her aunt set the table.

A succulent, mouth-watering Indian curry was stewing somewhere close by, and surely great pots of yellow Basmati rice were steaming there as well.