Il Riso Beretta Carnaroli Rice 2 Lb box Package of 3

For more than 100 years, rice represents the passion and engagement of three generations of entrepreneurs in Belgioioso. They have always been faithful to an idea that respects tradition and enhances the quality of the final product. Riso Principe 1910 offers “a rice” and a “rice-based” range of products with a recognized superior quality, able to meet the best taste requirements Carnaroli is used for making risotto, differing from the more common arborio rice due to its higher starch content and firmer texture, as well as having a longer grain. Carnaroli rice keeps its shape better than other forms of rice during the slow cooking required for making risotto due to its higher amylose content. Riso Principe was born in 1910 in Belgioioso, a little village in the province of Pavia, in the middle of the Po valley, a few kilometres from the left bank of the Po river. Our rice growing tradition grew in a territory that represents the core of the best and most important Italian rice plantations. Since then, three generations of entrepreneurs, more than one hundred years of history, passion, engagement in the rice growing tradition produced and processed only high quality rice. Rice is a food bound to simple and natural values, that are kept unchanged by observing the precious balance between water and earth, that translates in ideal growing and ripening conditions. Riso Principe wants to keep this harmony and to hand on the fidelity to that tradition that enhances the maximum quality of the final product. That’s why the product that reaches your table is fruit of a stone-processing and of a delicate husking method that allows to keep all the flavour of the grain and to keep unchanged its nutritional values. A product that keeps its best properties to satisfy your taste and wellbeing.