
Grains & noodles · Whole
Broken rice
Also called cơm tấm, com tam rice, brokens
Fragments of rice grains that cook soft; for Vietnamese cơm tấm, congee and Senegalese thieboudienne.
- A kind of Rice
What can replace it
- T2 · GoodJasmine rice
Whole grains cook up fluffier and less soft; com tam and congee lose some of their texture.
- T2 · GoodLong-grain rice
Firmer and less fragrant, without the soft, slightly sticky bite of broken grains.
- T3 · In a pinchShort-grain rice
Stickier and rounder; fine for congee, clumpy for com tam plates.
Cook with Broken rice
