🌾 What is
it? ESSA’s simple long-grain white rice — a staple kitchen ingredient that goes well with a variety of dishes: as a side dish with meat, vegetables and sauces, or in risottos and salads. Once cooked, the long grains do not stick together too much and remain light and fluffy.

🍽️ Taste and experience
✔️ Taste: neutral, with a slightly nutty aroma when cooked — ideal as a base that pairs easily with a variety of dishes.
✔️ Texture: after cooking, the grains remain separate and tender, without sticking together too much.
✔️ Experience: a versatile side dish for both home-cooked and exotic dishes.

🧾 Ingredients and allergens
Main ingredient:

• Long-grain white rice (100 %) — no additives.

Allergens:

• Rice generally does not contain allergens; however, it may theoretically contain traces of other substances from production or packaging (always check the packaging).

📊 Nutritional values (per 100 g of dry product) (approximate)

• Energy: ~1512 kJ / 356 kcal

• Fat: ~0.5 g (of which saturated ~0.2 g)

• Carbohydrates: ~80 g (of which sugars ~0.5 g)

• Protein: ~7.1 g

• Salt: ~0 g
  *(Nutritional information based on available product descriptions — may vary slightly depending on batch and variant.)

🍚 Uses in the kitchen
✔️ Side dish: with meat, fish or mixed vegetables.
✔️ As a main ingredient: in risotto, pilaf or salads.
✔️ In soups: add briefly cooked rice to make the dish more filling.

💡 Cooking tip:
Before cooking, rinse the rice in cold water (to remove some of the starch) and cook in twice the amount of water for approx. 12–15 minutes, then leave to finish cooking under a lid.