Basmati

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Basmati (Hindi: बासमती, Tamil: பாஸ்மதி Kannada: ಭಾಸ್ಮತಿ, Oriya: ବାସୁମତୀ, Urdu: باسمتی, Telugu: బాస్మతి, Bengali: বাসমতী) is a variety of long grain rice grown in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, notable for its fragrance and delicate, nuanced flavour. Its name means the fragrant one in Sanskrit, but it can also mean the soft rice, and the word coincidentally means my smile in Arabic. India is the largest cultivator, consumer and exporter of this rice; it is primarily grown through paddy field farming in the Punjab region.