Authentic Royal - Naturally Aged Long Grain Indian White Basmati Rice - 4 Pounds (2 x 2lbs Bag)

Waited a long time for this delivery.It tastes like any other good quality basmati rice but three times more expensive.will not buy this again.

Please be aware this is not real rice. Please check youtube. Rice can be made into a ball once cooked and it bounces once thrown onto the floor. This is not real rice

El producto es muy Caro

Good quality, good grains, quick preparation, less starchy, taste, healthy,

El arroz es la misma calidad de siempre, la presentación no, ya q me llegó en una bolsa plástica

Es un arroz que no debe cocinarse en exceso. Si se baja del fuego estando húmedo solamente y se aparta, queda en su punto. Es delicioso.

About ten years ago, I was lured by the incredibly low price for a burlap bag of Basmati rice at Costco, figuring that if I didn't like the rice, at least the bag would be useful. My wife tried that rice, and although she'd never used rice often in her cooking, we suddenly were frequent rice eaters. I had, in previous years, first given up broken "minute" rice for Uncle Ben's Converted, then gave that up for long grain rice.Reading online, I found that not all Basmati rice is the same. I no longer drive, and there's just me now, so Costco was out of the question. I didn't want to order 10 pounds, because now there WASN'T a burlap sack involved. However, this rice arrived when I'd just been in the hospital for a week, all my leftovers had gone south, and I had no energy to cook. I scooped a cup of rice into a pot, added two cups water. and brought it to a boil, added just a little bit of my homemade chicken stock, popped the lid on the pot, turned off the burner, and headed back to bed. A half hour later, I ventured out to find an immense batch, far too much for one person, of perfectly cooked warm rice. I filled a huge cereal bowl, adding a bit of butter, saly, and pepper, and carried it back to bed.Oh, my! I couldn't ask for anything better, and although pneumonia'd had me off my feeds the last few days, I ate every grain of that rice and wanted more. I can't imagine ever going back to "time--saving" rices, because they don't save time or effort, and most important, they don't taste nearly this good. There may be better Basmati rices out there, I suppose, but I wish I'd bought the 20-pound package; I'll be using this rice for every potluck meal (and there are a LOT of potlucks in a senior housing complex) because this rice tastes wonderful and costs very little, and I *like* the attention the ladies give a guy who cooks, so this bag will be gone in no time at all.Warning - Basmati Rice and Jasmine Rice are most highly flavorful rices, but Jasmine Rice is *terrible*. It smells like Avon perfume, and while I like some of the ladies who wear it, it turns my stomach. Why can't women learn that guys are turned on by women who smell like Ivorty soap, rather than a french whore who never showers?Add fresh or frozen veggies to this rice, or soup base, or mushrooms, and little bits of meat to the rice for wonderful entrees. I get those 10-pound bags of chicken leg quarters at Walmart for next to nothing, rinse and freeze them individually in ziplock bags, then boil the flinders out of one leg quarter, giving me broth (needs to be diluted a lot) and lots of meat fragments, throwing the skin and bones away. Add that meat to two cups rice and 4 cups liquid (about 25% broth concentrate, 75% water), a 20 oz bag of frozen mixed vegetables, a medium large onion sliced very thin (I like the cheap "Super Slicer Professional Mandoline Slicer" - search on that phrase here at Amazon, because mandolins vary a lot) and when you come back in a few minutes, spoon it into a casserole, adding some salt, pepper, paprika, and butter. Maybe you want to cover it with crumbs or shredded cheese, and brown it under the broiler, but I think it's fantastic even without. I can't tell you if leftovers keep well, though; I've never had any leftovers.If you check out my many reviews, you'll discover many books and products I warn others about, and even when I give five stars, it's usually with some reservations. This is one of those rare products I can endorse without any reservation at all.