Rice & Grains
2019 recipes found

Coconut Kettle Corn
This incredibly simple recipe makes for the perfect sweet and salty snack that you just can't stop eating. I came across a kettle corn recipe somewhere on the internet and substituted my preferred ingredients for a slightly tweaked treat. Hope you like it.

Fried Cornmeal Mush
Try to get past the name of this recipe. It really is quite tasty and the perfect time to enjoy the best maple syrup you can find...I like Grade A Dark Amber. I serve this for breakfast with applewood smoked bacon and sliced melon. When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, my father insisted on a dreadful side dish called "scrapple", best forgotten!

Warm and Nutty Breakfast Couscous
This warm and nutty Breakfast Couscous recipe is chock-full of protein-rich seeds and nuts and is sweetened with ground cinnamon and pure maple syrup.

Salty Sweet Popcorn (for all seasons)
I make this sweet and salty popcorn recipe for rooftop movies I host during the summer, served up in individual brown paper bags. It's easy and inexpensive!

Sheepherder's Pilaf
My grandfather was a Basque sheepherder and this is a family staple served with roasted leg of lamb. We all fight to pour the pan drippings from the lamb over our pilaf!
Vermicelli Rice - Ruz Ma Shayreeyeh
This recipe is a regular in Syrian and Lebanese homes. The bronze, glistening vermicelli rice adds texture when eaten alongside meat and vegetable dishes.

Dill Rice the Afghani Way- Chelo Shibit
Chelo means rice and shibit means dill, in Dari, one of the national languages of Afghanistan. This recipe has a lovely herbal quality from the dill over rice.

Cornbread Stuffing
This is the best cornbread stuffing because it starts with homemade cornbread that is grainy and savory. I find most cornbread to be very sweet. You can bake the cornbread to serve on its own or make a double batch to use in this stuffing. If you need an even larger quantity of stuffing, quadruple the cornbread recipe and double the stuffing recipe to bake in a 3-quart baking dish (it will take about 45 to 50 minutes) or in two 9-inch pans. Discover more ideas for the big day in our best Thanksgiving recipes collection.

Aunt Fran's Pancakes
This comes from my husband's Aunt Fran. They are hands down the best pancake I have ever eaten. They taste lovely and have a very light texture. I use a variation with nonfat plain yogurt, whole wheat pastry flour and egg whites. They are delicious with blueberries too!!!
Cheesy Sweet Potato Balls
This recipe was born out of leftovers I had in the fridge and a love for sweet potatoes. These sweet potato balls with cheese are deliciously addicting.

Oatmeal Pancakes
Mom used to stealthily try to make us eat all kinds of healthy things (tofu banana pie, brewer's yeast milkshakes, liver meatloaf) and usually we hated it (sorry Mom!), but these pancakes I still crave!
PALLAPPAM (Crisp Laced Rice Pancakes)
These Pallappams are light & have a delicate yet yielding crispy crunch. The coconut milk in the recipe confers a mild nutty aroma that balances the dish.

Risotto With Winter Squash and Collard Greens
Collard greens and roasted winter squash are very compatible in this nutritious and rich-tasting risotto. The squash, an excellent source of vitamin A, is sweet and tender, while the collards are earthy, with a slightly chewy texture.

Chinese Fried Rice With Shrimp and Peas
This is a more subdued version of fried rice than the spicier Thai fried rice. It’s a great dish to make if you have cooked rice on hand and a great vehicle for whatever vegetables may be in your refrigerator. Feel free to add other cooked vegetables, meat or seafood.

Olive Oil Granola With Dried Apricots and Pistachios
The secret weapon in this addictive granola is, yes, olive oil, which gives the oats and coconut chips a wonderful crispy bite. Make sure to add the fruit after baking (putting it in the oven will dry it out), and feel free to improvise: swap out the apricots for dried cherries, the pistachios for walnuts, the cardamom for a little nutmeg. But double the batch. You won’t want to run out.

Thai Laab Gai (Chicken With Lime, Chili and Fresh Herbs)
Laab gai is a dish of browned ground chicken, mint, basil and red onions dressed with lime juice and ground red chiles that's popular in Laos and Isan, neighboring rural sections of Thailand. (The dish is sometimes spelled larb, lob or lop.) It's perfect hot weather food: spicy, crunchy and light, but rich in flavors and contrasts. Traditionally, this dish is made with a roasted rice powder that's prepared by toasting raw rice in a wok, then grounding it to a powder, but you can find premade roasted rice powder at Asian markets. Whatever you do, don't skip it — it adds a nuttiness that's essential to the authentic flavor of the dish.

Rhubarb Raspberry Cobbler With Cornmeal Biscuits
Rhubarb is often paired with strawberries, but in this cobbler it courts a new dance partner, the raspberry. If rhubarb is young and fresh, you can trim it in seconds. If it has fibrous outer strings, peel these off as you would those of celery. The cornmeal in the biscuit dough will nicely offset the nubbiness of the raspberry seeds. You can eat it warm from the oven, smothered in heavy cream for dessert, then spoon up the leftovers cold the next morning for breakfast, topped with yogurt.

Risotto With Asparagus, Fresh Fava Beans and Saffron
Fava beans top my list of spring favorites. The 15 minutes that it will take you to shell and skin these high-protein, high-fiber treasures is time well spent, because their season is, sadly, a short one. A warning, though: fava beans are toxic to individuals with favism, caused by an inherited blood enzyme deficiency. Be cautious when trying fava beans for the first time.

Rice-and-Egg Soup
This meal in a bowl is pure midwinter comfort. Loosely adapted from the Japanese dish zousui, beaten eggs are poured into a pot of hot stock and rice, where they set into soft, custardlike strands. You can use any kind of stock and any kind of rice, although the starchier the rice, the thicker the soup will be. You can also add cooked vegetables or pieces of meat for a heartier dish.

Pepper Fried Rice
I was once amazed to find I could use frozen red and yellow bell pepper strips straight from the package. (I am aware that this is not a revelation to everyone; call me stupid.) The peppers are great in a simple quick dish of fried rice. If frozen vegetables are handled expeditiously, they are often better than buying 'fresh' at the store." It's true. Freezing, especially after blanching (which is almost always a part of the process), locks in both flavor and nutrients. And the use of I.Q.F. (individually quick frozen) technology has become routine, and the results are profoundly better than freezing vegetables in solid blocks. (These products are almost always sold in plastic bags, not boxes, and as a rule you should buy frozen vegetables in plastic bags.)

Stir-Fried Shrimp With Snow Peas and Ginger
In 2005, Julia Moskin wrote an excellent article about woks, the best sort for American kitchens (a 14-inch heavy-gauge carbon-steel wok with a flat bottom) and how to season it. This recipe, adapted from Grace Young's book, "The Breath of a Wok," ran alongside it. It is simple, fresh and fast. It cooks in under 5 minutes, so start your pot of rice as you clean the shrimp and chop the ginger, garlic and scallions.

Belgian Endive and Grain Mustard Salad
This is a fresh, tangy salad, loaded with sweet-sour flavor and given a good crunch by toasted hazelnuts. The bitter endive and peppery watercress complement each other beautifully, and it’s all tarted up with a citrusy dressing. It’s easy, and delicious.

Brown Rice and Seaweed Salad
There is nothing like a brown rice and seaweed salad for setting the scene for a more virtuous-feeling new year. Brown rice just seems righteous and pure, and I somehow believe that eating it makes me a better person. And just the word "seaweed" is promising: It may sound like the culinary equivalent of a hair shirt, but imagine this hair shirt lined with cashmere, so delicious and flavorsome is this salad. There is not the faintest whiff of penance about it.

Georgian Stuffed Chicken
This recipe was inspired by the cuisine of Georgia, on the Black Sea. The stuffing is a simple affair of rice cooked with onions, garlic and dried sour cherries. Parsley is forked through before spooning the rice into the chickens. And yes, chickens: I take the view that one bird is a meal, two is a feast.