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Dochen is Halachically considered a legume, and therefore requires a shehakol beforehand, and a boray nefashot as its after-blessing.
Orez is a Halachic quirk: when it is cooked to the extent that it becomes one mass, or if it is ground and baked as bread, it requires a mezonot blessing beforehand and a boray nefashot afterwards. If it was cooked, however, but neither of these conditions were met, then there is a disagreement between halachic authorities whether the pre-blessing recited is mezonot or ha’adamah. The problem is that we are not certain whether dochen is rice and millet is orez or vice versa.
The general rule is that one recites a shehakol – a generic blessing – on any food item for which the blessing is intrinsically doubtful. Thus a person would be within his rights to recite a shehakol on rice
Because of this uncertainty, there are different opinions regarding which blessing one makes on rice. We will bring the authoritative opinion of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.1
The general rule is that one recites a shehakol – a generic blessing – on any food item for which the blessing is intrinsically doubtful. Thus a person would be within his rights to recite a shehakol on rice. The after blessing is not in doubt, as all options call for the boray nefashot.
Rabbi Schneur Zalman suggests, however, that a G-d fearing individual should eat rice only as part of a meal in which one has said the hamotzie on bread,2 thus avoiding any confusion or making the incorrect blessing.3
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