If you ever thought rice was boring, think again. Rice is such a versatile food that it can be cooked in a zillion ways. Okay, maybe not a zillion but definitely a hundred. So if you’re in the mood for some fluffy homemade rice, or even wondering what to do with yesterday’s excess rice, here are a zillion ways to use rice for snacks, or as many as we can list!
1. How to cook rice perfectly like us Indians?
Rice is a grain eaten daily all over India. But Indians don't cook rice like the Western world. Here's how to remove the starch and make your rice fluffy!
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2. Traditional East Indian Wedding Rice
Wedding rice is a delicious and tasty dish served at most East Indian weddings and special functions.
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3. How to cook yellow (turmeric) rice perfectly?
Rice is a staple food all over India, and is eaten as a main dish with a variety of dals or curries. But yellow rice is tastier and healthier.
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4. Cheesy Spanish Rice
This easy peasy baked Cheesy Spanish Rice is hearty enough to be a meal or a delish side. So flavorful and so delish, it’ll be your new fav!
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5. Indian Jeera Rice – Cumin Rice
Jeera rice is popular across India. Made by adding fried jeera or cumin to cooked rice, it's a cooling and tasty way to serve fluffy white rice or basmati rice!
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6. Chicken & Poha (Beaten Rice) Dish called Tope
Special East Indian Chicken Tope dish is a marriage of our Portuguese cultural inheritance with our Konkan Maharashtrian Indian roots, a perfect all in one gluten free meal.
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7. Sesame Rice
This sesame rice is cooked with water and sesame oil for a flavorful take on rice. It’s an easy way to add more flavor to your rice and elevate it!
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8. Easy Burnt Onion Rice
Burnt onion rice is a different sort of tasty rice! All it needs is a few onions and a handful of nuts and you can easily eat it on its own or with chutney.
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9. Italian Rice Salad
This Italian rice salad can be put together in 10 minutes and is packed with fresh, zingy flavour.
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10. Shrimp And Risotto Recipe – Gluten Free Homestead
Shrimp risotto is made with a special Arborio rice so it’s gluten free! With a gentle cooking method, it turns out a rich creamy comfort meal.
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11. Authentic Polish Golumpki Recipe – Cabbage Rolls That Taste Like Poland!
Looking for authentic Polish golumpki recipe? Check out this traditional recipe for Polish stuffed cabbage rolls that you can easily make at home!
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12. Instant Pot Fajita Rice
Top this easy Instant Pot Fajita Rice, loaded with juicy chicken and lots of cheese, with your favorite toppings to make a tasty meal your whole family will love.
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13. East Indian Colored Rice – Pink Green and White Rice
A more colorful version of the jeera rice or jeera fried rice, the East Indian tricolor rice is pink/red, green, and white in color. Fragrant and tasty, it's often eaten for festive occasions.
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14. Arroz Rojo Recipe: Authentic Mexican Red Rice – Maricruz Avalos Kitchen Blog
This arroz rojo (mexican red rice) is fluffy, delicious and loaded with Mexican flavors. Learn how easily make it at home with simple ingredients and enjoy it as a side dish for your favourite Mexican dishes!
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15. Haitian Rice and Beans
Haitian Red Beans & Rice – Diri Ak Pwa is a staple Haitian dish. This easy Vegetarian Rice & Beans can serve as a meal on its own for Meatless Monday. #riceandbeans #haitianrecipes #haitianfood
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16. 30-Minute Jamaican Rice and Pigeon Peas with Coconut Milk – Very Veganish
A spicy 30-minute meal full of Caribbean flavor, this easy Jamaican rice and pigeon peas recipe with coconut milk will transport you to the islands. A delicious addition to your “rice and beans” repertoire using either canned pigeon peas or homemade.
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17. Vegan Poke Bowl with Sweet Soy Ginger Dressing – Very Veganish
Enjoy poke bowls at home anytime with this plant-based, vegan take on the beloved Hawaiian street fare. Perfect for meal prep and loaded with veggies, these vegan poke bowls are paired with a sweet soy ginger oil-free dressing.
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18. Mexican Green Rice (arroz verde) – Maricruz Avalos Kitchen Blog
This Mexican green rice (arroz verde) is so fragrant, delicious, and very easy to make at home. A staple in Mexican cuisine, this side dish is perfect to pair with Mexican delights.
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19. Teriyaki Chicken Fried Rice – With Baked Runny Eggs – EmilyFabulous
Teriyaki Chicken Fried Rice is an easy and delicious weeknight meal loaded with fresh veggies, chicken, and a baked runny egg on top!
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20. Perfectly Cooked Red Rice in Instant Pot – Easy Indian Cookbook
Red rice is healthier when compared to white rice, it has a slightly chewy texture with an earthy and nutty flavor.
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21. Arroz Colorido – Colorful Mexican Rice: A Meal Prep Solution
Arroz colorido means “Colorful Rice” in Spanish: you will love the bright flavors in this Mexican rice. I just made this in an effort to get ahead of meals for my family for the week.
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22. Lamb Pilau Rice – So Yummy Recipes
Lamb pilau rice is a savoury rice dish cooked in spiced lamb stock. It’s sort of a one-pot dish that contains comfort carbs of the rice with nutritious protein of the lamb meat.
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23. Bombay Chicken Biryani|Pakistani Biryani | tips n recipes
A mouth-watering, flavourful Bombay Chicken Biryani (Pakistani biryani recipe) is a perfect treat for weekends or occasions that everyone would certainly love it.
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24. Kimchi Fried Rice – How to Make the PERFECT Fried Rice
Kimchi Fried Rice – How to Make the PERFECT Fried Rice – steps to make the perfect fried rice every time and a delicious Korean fried rice recipe. This post was inspired by one
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25. Nasi Goreng Seafood: Indonesian Seafood Fried Rice Recipe – So Yummy Recipes
Indonesian Nasi Goreng seafood is what you want to make when you crave a seafood dish that feels light to enjoy. This recipe helps you make it without spending too much time with a deliciously satisfying result
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26. Nigerian Jollof Rice
Whether you’re Nigerian, Ghanaian or from other parts of West Africa, you probably love jollof rice. Try this one pot, African rice with a delicious tomato and pepper stew base. Click on this recipe for step by step instructions and 3 tips to make the perfect jollof rice!
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27. Mediterranean Rice – Megan vs Kitchen
Easy Mediterranean Rice has onion, garlic, turmeric, cumin, butter, & olive oil. This delicious fluffy rice goes well with chicken and kebobs.
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28. Paneer Biryani Recipe | ThisThatMore
Paneer Biryani Recipe is aromatic & flavorful rice recipe made by layering rice, paneer, and veggies. It is best enjoyed with yogurt or raita.
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29. Ham Fried Rice – Oh My Food Recipes
Have leftover ham? Try out this authentic, tasty ham fried rice recipe and learn how to make the best ham fried rice at home.
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30. Turmeric Coconut Rice Recipe – Colorful, Dairy & Gluten-free Sidedish
Turmeric coconut rice is delicious, easy to make, colorful, gluten-free, dairy-free, low FODMAP, and has some health benefits.
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31. Coconut Turmeric Rice – Through The Fibro Fog
This coconut turmeric rice is a fragrant and healthy side dish. Very easy to make, with mostly pantry staples, it takes less than 30 minutes.
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32. Champagne Risotto Served In A Parmesan Wheel
Champagne risotto has a very delicate flavor, a precious addition to a light and refined festive menu. Serve it on a Parmesan wheel to create a unique party centerpiece.
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33. How to Make Sushi Rice Recipe
This recipe for How to Make Sushi Rice is super easy and simple. The rice turns out perfectly every time. Perfect as a side or simple meal!
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34. Easy Mixed Vegetable Rice
This Easy Mixed Vegetable Rice is my newest obsession. I know what you are thinking – strange, weird, just a little a bit out there. But this fluffy seasoned ri…
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35. Vegetarian Rice Timbale with Grilled Eggplants Recipe
Vegetarian Rice Timbale is practical for dinner parties as you can prepare the rice and the filling the day before, and compose it just before your party.
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36. Rice in the Oven (Riso al Forno)
This is not your traditional Risotto. This is a traditional Italian Style Rice in the Oven or Riso al Forno. Recipe compliments of mom
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37. Chicken Shawarma Rice Recipe
Chicken Shawarma Rice is a rice recipe mixed with spice chicken, vegetables, yellow rice, and drizzle with white garlic sauce
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38. Curry Rice
Ready for an amazing side dish that is so tasty it could be its own meal? This Curry Rice is exactly what you’ve been searching for. Hold onto your pots and pans folks, because this Curried Rice could become a new weekly meal request.
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39. Steak Fried Rice
Feast your eyes on an amazing, easy-to-make, full-of-flavor, DELICIOUS Steak Fried Rice, combining rice, juicy pieces of beef, mixed veggies and egg in a truly…
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40. Instant Pot Mexican Brown Rice – Love from the Table
Instant Pot Mexican Brown Rice is a perfect side dish for all your favorite Mexican meals. This easy homemade rice is super flavorful and simple. The instant pot takes out all the guess work, for perfect rice every time.
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41. Rice Dressing with Bacon
A change from traditional stuffing, this rice dressing is packed full of bacon, mushrooms, and fluffy rice.
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42. Authentic Chicken Maqluba Recipe
An authentic Jordanian Chicken Maqluba Recipe which is mix with chicken, cauliflower, eggplant, potatoes, rice and middle eastern spices.
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43. Jeweled Saffron Rice Recipe
Easy, elegant recipe that is a feast for the eyes and the belly!
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44. Bone Broth Rice
Cook rice with bone broth instead of water to make this hearty Bone Broth Rice that’s rich and full of added nutrients like collagen.
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45. Pandan Rice (2 ways)
2 easy Pandan Rice recipes: how to cook a fragrant white rice or a pandan-flavored, olive-green, creamy rice using 2-3 simple ingredients.
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46. Easy Lemon Rice Recipe – Little Sunny Kitchen
Easy to make Lemon Rice is the perfect side dish for chicken, fish, meat, or vegetables. You only need 5 ingredients to get this yummy side dish on the table.
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47. Narali Bhath | Sweet Coconut Rice – My Cooking Journey
Narali Bhath | Sweet Coconut Rice – Desserts, Festivals, Indian, Kids Friendly Narali Bhath
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Some dishes you might not even recognize as Rice!
48. Letri – Handmade Rice Noodle Dessert
Looking pretty in pink, green and white, letri is a noodle dessert made of rice flour. Quite simply, handmade noodles topped with fresh coconut and jaggery. It's simply delicious!
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49. Gluten Free Chitaps or Rice Crepes
East Indian chitaps are a light and fluffy rice crepe that goes well with anything. Abby modified the recipe to make it gluten free for her friends.
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50. Qifqi – Albanian Rice Balls
Qifqi – Albanian Rice Balls are a quick and easy snack or serve them at your next party. Explore Balkan cuisine with this and more recipes!
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51. Fried Risotto Balls From Calabria
This fried risotto balls recipe is not Arancini, these are gluten-free fried saffron risotto bites with no breadcrumbs and no fillings.
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What’s your favorite way to cook rice? Comment and let us know!
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