457388 Mon Nov 05 08:28:46 -0800 2007 6 31 Home Cooking 0 3096043 i suppose over the years I've always gone to pre-boxed/packaged wild rice blends, who knows. Well I recently decided to try some wild rice from the Bulk section, beutiful and dark. I mixed it with a bit of brown rice and cooked as usual... my question...what is up with all the purple?! I know it wont hurt anything, and tases negligible, but is it just something as simple as rinsing it that i should be doing? I attempted my old comfort favorite of mixing in a mushroom sourcream type mixture and the purple was just overwhelming and hilarious..lol we still ate it, but... Mon Nov 05 08:28:46 -0800 2007 135178 TSQ75 1 3096106 Are you certain that what you bought was wild rice and not something like Black Japonica or Purple Thai? Both of those cook up purple--and will color anything they're cooked with. But I've never seen a purple wild rice, which I'm sure you know is really rice at all but a seed from a kind of grass. Mon Nov 05 08:44:08 -0800 2007 3096043 11407 JoanN 1 3096713 I'm not sure what you bought. Wild rice isn't purple when raw. Doesn't cook purple. Has nothing purple about it. In fact, I had to read your post several times to even understand what you were asking about. If you want to buy real wild rice with confidence, I recommend you find a different supplier. Byerly's grocery chain in Minnesota used to mail me big orders of their store-brand wild rice in 1-pound packages after we moved away. I've since found a local source for wild rice, so I stopped using Byerly's. I don't know whether Byerly's will still do this. Mon Nov 05 10:54:42 -0800 2007 3096043 61567 Indy 67 2 3096928 yeah, i bet its not actually wild rice... it actually came out of my sister in law's pantry when she moved, and i recall being with her when she bought it at WF's...maybe i just assumed it was wild rice... Mon Nov 05 11:46:58 -0800 2007 3096713 135178 TSQ75 3 3097785 It could be Chinese black glutinous rice, especially if you find yours kind of sweet and sticky. Mon Nov 05 15:03:42 -0800 2007 3096928 18015 tarteaucitron 1 3098014 If there's a Trader Joes near you, reliable and fairly priced wild rice is available. Try cooking it in a pilaf or mixed with white rice - fabulous! Mon Nov 05 16:19:26 -0800 2007 3096043 23712 DiveFan 1 3098044 Black or forbidden rice can indeed be wild rice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rice To get the full nutrient value of the black rice you are kind of stuck with the purple color. If you want to lessen the purple, you can soak it for several hours and then rinse until the water runs clear. Mon Nov 05 16:29:16 -0800 2007 3096043 93805 hannaone