Rice

53 Best Rice Recipes to Use Up That Bag in Your Pantry

This pantry staple is the key to a delicious dinner.
Photo of a wide ceramic bowl with grans sliced avocado cucumbercitrus salad and charred glazed shrimp.
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell

You can always serve a fluffy pile of rice as a side dish next to whatever you’re cooking, but sometimes—in the best rice recipes—rice really is a central part of the meal. Whether you’re starting with basmati rice, jasmine rice, black rice, brown rice, red rice, or any other type, you’ll find inspiration below in this list of recipes. Our favorite rice recipes include coconut rice, rice salads, risotto, rice pudding, stuffed cabbage (and eggplants and zucchini), and so much more.

  • flaked salmon atop a mound of golden fried rice sprinkled with scallions
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    Golden Fried Rice With Salmon and Furikake

    You may think you've got it down, and that you don't need fried rice recipes, but this technique from chef Lucas Sin gets every grain is coated in egg yolk, so it fries up perfectly distinct and chewy.

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  • Potato and rice tahdig on a white plate with a spoon in it.
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    Potato Tahdig

    The best part of this saffron-laced long grain rice dish? The pride you'll feel when you successfully flip it over to reveal the crispy potato top.

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  • Photo of a wide ceramic bowl with grans sliced avocado cucumbercitrus salad and charred glazed shrimp.
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    Citrus Shrimp Rice Bowls

    A bright and spicy sauce works as both marinade for the shrimp and dressing for the citrus salad in these colorful rice bowls.

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  • Herbed rice with tomatoes and feta in a shallow bowl with a spoon.
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    Herbed Rice With Tomatoes and Feta

    This vibrant green dish is great served at room temperature. A little feta adds richness, while cherry tomatoes contribute a pop of sweetness. Bring it to your next picnic or backyard barbecue.

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  • Three footed dessert glasses with rice pudding topped with whipped cream and dusted with cinnamon on a table scattered...
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    Diner-Style Rice Pudding

    Classic, creamy, and so delicious.

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  • Paella with shrimp and mussels in a pan.
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    Paella With Seafood

    This classic Spanish recipe from cookbook author Claudia Roden makes a celebratory seafood and rice dish flavored with sweet paprika and golden saffron.

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  • Photo of Abra Risotto in a braising dish with a spoon orange slices and dill on the side.
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    Creamy Squash Risotto With Toasted Pepitas

    Silky miso and a paprika-packed squash purée makes this dairy-free risotto into a particularly hearty and satisfying main dish. Double or triple the squash purée, and use it in other meals throughout the week—we like stirring it into soup and turning it into a pasta sauce.

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  • Salmon rice bowls with coconutginger broth in a blue bowl with a fork and two lime halves on the side.
    Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell
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    Salmon Rice Bowls With Coconut-Ginger Broth

    There's so much to love in this comforting rice bowl recipe: coconut broth, quickly cooked salmon with a crunchy panko top, plus vibrant greens. 

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  • A serving of rice pudding in a bowl topped with crushed pistachios and edible flowers.
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    Cardamom Kheer

    This aromatic rice pudding is flavored with cinnamon and cardamom, and gets a topping of pistachios and edible flowers.

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    Coconut Rice and Peas

    This Jamaican classic gets richness from coconut milk, heartiness from kidney beans, and an exquisite aroma from fresh herbs and garlic.

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  • Casserole dish with bread topping cracked off and a dish of rice and vegetables being spooned onto a plate.
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    Mast Biryani (Grand Vegetable Biryani)

    Packed full of a rainbow of colors, flavors, and textures, from spiced paneer, chickpeas, and tomatoes, plus roasted beets, sweet potatoes, and a citrusy coconut and cilantro sauce, this is a vegetarian option for special occasions.

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  • Baked Minty Rice with Feta and Pomegranate
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    Baked Minty Rice with Feta and Pomegranate Relish

    If you've given up on stovetop rice methods, you'll love this hands-off oven technique. The dish is packed with Mediterranean flavor: salty feta, tangy pomegranate, and lots of bright mint.

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  • Photo of two bowls of khara huggi.
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    Khara Huggi or Pongal

    This one-pot dish, called khichdi in some regions, is made from rice, yellow lentils called moong dal, which are split mung beans without skin, and black pepper and cumin seeds fried in ghee or butter. The lentils and rice cook together, making a creamy, rich, comforting meal.

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  • skillet with chicken thighs nestled in a bed of rice with salsa verde drizzled over the top
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    Chicken and Rice With Leeks and Salsa Verde

    Whenever you cook chicken and rice together, you know dinner is going to be good.

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