Are these are quinoa
and pearl farro
I can’t tell scale, but that does not look like quinoa, and I’ve never seen farro that white — looks like some kind of rice
I’d guess a millet of some type for the top (jowar / sorghum or bajra.
ETA: you said grain, but the top could also be brown lentils
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The top one could be quinoa
The lower one looks too pale even for pearled farro
The top one looks more like couscous (pasta made from wheat).
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For couscous it’s too big (or did you mean pearl couscous) ?
Top doesn’t look as uniform as couscous would be (technically it’s a pasta, not a grain). It doesn’t look like quinoa either but I think it would be easier to identify as quinoa after cooking - I find the little curly-q bit to be distinguishing. The color is like buckwheat but the shape is wrong. I like @Saregama ’s guess of sorghum or millet.
Bottom: my guess is some sort of white rice, but I’ve never seen farro that white/translucent.
Scale of photos is unknown. Here’s a link to images of both types of couscous as a help to OP
And the white lower one that looks like rice may be Sushi rice / Japonica - looks identical to photo in SeriousEats article about rice.
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Top photo seems to be a type of whole grain, can’t be couscous, as it’s derived from wheat.
2nd photo is short grain rice.
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That’s a 4" diameter Pyrex dish.
I do have some couscous.
The color is consistent. The other is a bit mottled in comparison, with few odd black seeds.
Cook some of each. Fastest way to find out.
Thanks.
Would you cook them the same? I couldn’t distinguish them by taste.
Same as what? I use 1:2 water proportion for rice, slightly less for quinoa.
The taste of quinoa is pretty strong / distinctive for me.
As is rice vs wheat.
amaranth & sushi rice
Forgive me, but I thought it would understood by the images and description, but I should have mentioned that none of them are rice.
When I said. “Would you cook them the same?”, I assumed that perhaps there would be different methods for different products.
Really? The bottom one sure looks like rice.
(from https://www.tastingtable.com/1262283/calrose-rice-explained-cooking/)
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This could be fun!
The second picture does not look like any of the farro I have tried!
I had a similar question here!
Curious why you’re sure the second is not rice. Here is a google image search.
Wheat varieties have a dent in the grain in my experience. Here is pearled farro:
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