Indian Food & Recipes

Rice ( chawal / chaal / chaul )

Indian Name : chawal / chaal / chaul
Scientific Name : Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima
Part used : Grain

Systematic Position :
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Oryza
Species: O. sativa and O. glaberrima

There is a special variety of rice, that are called basmati / basmoti or scented rice.

Basmati rice is of two types one is shorter grain variety called Gobindabhog and another is longer grain variety called Dehradun rice.