Rice is used to make many different preparations like salads, soups, first courses,side dishes and sometimes desserts The most famous praparation is the "Risotto", it is rice cooked in an aromatic saute of onion and butter and then cooked in boiling broth which can be stock,vegetable,fish depending on the praparation. You must feel any single grain of rice while chewing but at the same time all the grain must be combined in a nice creamy and almost dense mix.