Scorched rice

Scorched rice
Scorched rice in Iran
Alternative names
List
  • pegao - Puerto Rico
  • concón - Dominican Republic
  • concolón - Peru, Panama
  • cocolón - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
  • graten - Haitian Creole
  • cucayo – Quechua
  • htamin gyo (ထမင်းချိုး) - Burmese
  • kerak nasi – Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian Standard Malay)
  • kaning tutóng – Filipino
  • cơm cháy – Vietnamese
  • apango – Malagasy
  • guōbā (锅巴(s); 鍋巴(t)) – Mandarin Chinese
  • faan6 ziu1 (饭焦(s); 飯焦(t)) – Cantonese Chinese
  • nurungji (누룽지) – Korean
  • okoge (お焦げ) – Japanese
  • qazmagh (qazmağ) or qazandibi (qazandibi)– Azerbaijani
  • tahdig (تهدیگ) – Persian
  • bınkıř (بنکڕ) – Kurdish
  • hakakeh (حكاكه) - Iraqi Arabic
  • kodada (كداده) - Hejazi Arabic
  • arae el halla (قرع الحلّة) - Egyptian Arabic
  • socarrat - Valencian and Catalan
  • kanzo or ɛmo ase - Twi
  • mawowó - Makhuwa
  • kokorota - Cape Verdean Creole
TypeCooked rice
Main ingredientsRice
VariationsCucayo, guōbā, nurungji, okoge, tah dig, rengginang

Scorched rice, also known as crunchy rice, is a thin crust of slightly browned rice at the bottom of the cooking pot. It is produced during the cooking of rice over direct heat from a flame.