Carnaroli rice Principato di Lucedio.

The carnaroli rice by Principato di Lucedio is one the finest and most famous rice varieties in Italy. Its success was due to its incredible features: the grain size is big, it is firm to the bite and it does not stick. All these features make this rice perfectly suitable for making risotto dishes. Principato di Lucedio offers its high-quality rice in jute bags, renowned in Italy by the best national chefs and gourmands. From the first decades of the 20th century, the first artificial crossings among different rice varieties were created, with the aim to form a rice that would be easier to grow, with a bigger production and more resistant to the 'brusone', a very common plant-disease in those years. The most successful variety was the Carnaroli, created in 1945 as a crossing between two widespread varieties all over Italy: the Vialone and the Leccino.