Fried Sweet Rice with Chinese Sausage

This fried sweet rice with sausages and shiitake mushrooms is so easy to make and totally tasty. 

This fried rice recipe is different than most because it calls for sweet rice (or sticky rice), which is a short grain rice higher in starch, or amylopectin (fancy name for a plant starch). 

Stir-Fried Brown Rice with Vegetables and Ginger

This stir-fried brown rice with vegetables and ginger is an easy main course for lunch, as well as a delicious side dish for a multi-course dinner. 

It's a great dish to make when you want to use up those last carrots and mushrooms in your vegetable bin along with leftover day old brown rice you have in the fridge. 

Chinese Cuban Fried Rice

This Chinese Cuban fried rice, or arroz frito, is a wonderful combination of ingredients tossed together in just a few minutes. 

There is no one recipe for Chinese Cuban fried rice. Each Cuban family has their own. However, some of the common ingredients include some sort of protein such as pork, ham, Spam, or shrimp, and soy sauce (typically dark soy sauce), or salsa china.  

Mexican Red Rice | Arroz Rojo

This Mexican red rice is the essential time tested side dish for whenever you are serving your favorite Mexican-style meal. 

Arroz rojo, or red rice, is one of those dishes served every day with Mexican dishes both north and south of the Rio Grande. When you think of rice and beans, this is pretty much the traditional tomato-y rice, with a couple of twists.

Wild Rice and Onion Bread

This wild rice and onion bread is easy to make, and amazingly delicious. 

I had wanted to make this wild rice and onion bread for a long time. I love the look of the wild rice throughout the bread, and I am crazy about onions in just about anything savory. 

Kimchi Fried Rice

Kimchi fried rice is a delicious dish made with some leftover rice and kimchi from your fridge, along with other add-ins you might have on hand, and can be whipped up in about 15 minutes. 

Kimchi fried rice is wonderful with dumplings, pork buns, or Korean fried chicken. You can also serve it with soup, or just serve it on its own for an economical meal. 

Leftover Chicken Pot Pie Soup Rice Casserole

If you love the flavors of chicken pot pie, you will enjoy this rice casserole made with leftover chicken pot pie soup. 

 

I am a huge fan of chicken pot pie. Huge Fan. When nothing else sounds good, I always settle on chicken pot pie. It is such an amazing comfort food and revives my taste buds. 

Shrimp Biryani

This Shrimp Biryani is a tasty aromatic one dish meal of shrimp and basmati rice, flavored with spices, garlic, lemon, and cilantro. It's so delicious!

This biryani is an easy dish to make. The shrimp cooks quickly, and the juices from the shrimp and its spices permeate and flavor the basmati rice.

Greek Seafood Rice {Rizi me Thalassina}

This Greek Seafood Rice is fresh, hearty, and delicious. It's super creamy like risotto, but much easier to make.

This Greek Seafood Rice is so good! This recipe includes extra large shrimp as well as mussels, but you can use any seafood you like.

Wild Rice and Flax Seed Bread

With a chewy crust and soft and airy interior, this wild rice and flax seed bread is hearty, nutritious, and delicious. 

This wild rice and flax seed bread is a riff on my Four Hour French Country Bread. I've added some cooked wild rice plus some whole and ground flax seeds.

Cornmeal and Rice Crusted Catfish

This fried catfish is coated with a mixture of cornmeal and ground long grain rice and then pan fried until it is golden and crispy. 

This cornmeal and rice crusted catfish is extra crunchy from the rice in the dredge used before frying.

Brown Rice Pilaf with Shrimp, Scallions, and Snow Peas

Brown Rice Pilaf with Shrimp, Scallions, and Snow Peas - Brown rice simmered in stock and tossed with shrimp, snow peas, scallions, and garnished with cilantro. 

Brown rice is whole grain rice that still has its bran. It is chewier than white rice, and has a nuttier flavor. Any color whole grain rice is considered "brown rice," and can be used in this recipe.

Easy One-Pan Roasted Peppers with Sausage and Rice Dinner

This roasted peppers with sausage and rice dish is easy to make with just five ingredients, and it takes just a few minutes to cook.

All you need is roasted red bell peppers, Italian sausage, cooked rice, plus a little fresh oregano and Parmesan cheese for garnish.

Senbei - Japanese Rice Crackers with Furikake {Gluten Free}

Japanese rice crackers, or Senbei, are super crispy crackers that are both salty and sweet, and exceptionally crunchy.

These senbei, made with nori furikake, a seaweed rice seasoning, and glazed with soy and mirin (a sweet Japanese rice wine), are completely compelling. They have a flavor that kind of reminds you of sushi, because of the Nori Furikake incorporated into the dough.

Yang Chow Fried Rice with Grilled Duck

Yang Chow Fried Rice, also known as Yangzhou fried rice, is a traditional dish from the Chinese province of the same name. It is often served at the end of a banquet.

This Yang Chow fried rice is a little different than the typical simple version with just rice, ham, and shrimp. 

Carrot, Spinach, and Rice Stew

This spinach with rice and carrots is so nutritious, and it's such an easy and simple weekday side dish. 

The recipe for this spinach with rice and carrots illustrates how three large bunches of fresh spinach wilts down during the cooking process into a side dish for four.

Coconut Red Curry Halibut with Rice

This Coconut Red Curry Halibut with Rice is deliciously flavored with ginger, scallions, mushrooms, and with bamboo shoots adding a nice crunch.  

This coconut red curry halibut with rice takes only about 15 minutes to prep, and about 20 minutes to cook, making it an easy weeknight meal.

Sandpot Stir-Fried Chicken Rice | Wok Wednesdays

This Sandpot Stir-Fried Chicken Rice is a traditional Cantonese dish. Rice is cooked in a sandpot, while chicken, ginger, and shiitake mushrooms are stir-fried in a wok. Before the rice is fully cooked, the stir-fry mixture is placed on top of the rice to finish cooking.

As Grace Young says, this "exemplifies the fuel efficiency of Chinese cuisine." The hot rice continues to cook the chicken, and the juices in the chicken flavor the rice.

Slow Cooker Asian Beef Short Ribs

These slow cooker Asian beef short ribs were "melt-in-you-mouth" tender and flavorful. The beef ribs are braised in hoisin sauce, chicken broth, chili garlic sauce, and scallions. To finish these short ribs, just skim the fat from the resulting sauce, and pour the sauce over the ribs, serve with rice, and garnish with green onions. To separate the fat from the sauce, I really love this gadget.

This is the perfect easy slow cooker company dinner. If you have a rice cooker, it's even easier. The ribs are amazing fresh from the slow cooker, and just as good the next day. According to Mr. Kitchen, this dish is delicious. I would agree.

Slow Cooker Asian Beef Short Ribs

Ingredients

1/4 C chicken broth

3/4 C hoisin sauce

3 scallions, thinly sliced and the white parts separated and minced

2 T chili garlic sauce

1 T instant tapioca

5 pounds bone in short ribs, trimmed of fat and with the silver skin removed. 

Salt and pepper

Instructions

1. Combine the broth, hoisin sauce, the white parts of the scallions, garlic sauce, and tapioca. Add the mixture to a 6 to 7 quart slow cooker. 
2. Salt and pepper the trimmed short ribs and add them to the slow cooker so that the bones are vertical and the ribs are evenly nestled into the sauce. 
3. Cook on low 9 to 10 hours, or on high 6 to 7 hours. 
4. Remove the ribs from the slow cooker and place them on a serving platter. Tent with foil for at least 5 minutes. 
5. Skim the fat from the remaining sauce. 
6. Serve the ribs and sauce over rice and garnish with the green parts of the scallions. 

Slightly adapted from The Make Ahead Cook.

Fried Rice with Crab and Peas

This fried rice with crab and peas takes only 20 minutes to make, especially if you have some leftover steamed or Chinese takeout white rice. It makes a great lunch or dinner with a salad. The rest of the ingredients are easy to find, and the dish is a lot of fun to make.

I used a wok to make this dish, but a large skillet would work too. What's so nice about the wok is that it develops a nonstick finish when you use it over time, but you can still use it with very high heat, unlike most nonstick pans.

Fried Rice with Crab and Peas

Ingredients

1/4 C soy sauce

1 1/2 T rice vinegar

1 tsp sesame oil

1/2 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp white pepper

2 T peanut or vegetable oil

1 T minced ginger

3 cloves of garlic, minced

3 green onions, thinly sliced

4 C steamed white rice

2 eggs, beaten

8 ounces of crab meat

1 C frozen peas

Instructions

1. Mix the soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, and white pepper in a small bowl. 
2. Heat a wok on high heat until hot and add the oil.
3. Add the ginger and garlic and stir for about 5 to 10 seconds and then quickly add the rice and stir fry for about 5 minutes.
4. Make a well in the center of the rice to expose the bottom of the pan, and add the eggs and quickly stir fry until cooked through.
5. Add the crabmeat, peas, and sauce and stir fry for about 3 more minutes. 

Adapted from Williams Sonoma: Food Made Fast Asian.