Delicious rice dishes: recipes for every day and for special occasions
Rice is firmly on the list of the most used products in the world. It is an integral part of the culinary culture of Spain, Italy, and eastern countries.
What dishes can be cooked from rice?
Cereal can be used not only as a side dish or a component of hot dishes and soups, but also as an ingredient for desserts.
Hearty for breakfast
For a good start to the day, you need a hearty meal. Rice porridge with apple slices, the addition of cottage cheese and honey will in this case be a real find. For its preparation you will need:
- rice - 0.5 cups;
- cottage cheese - 100 g;
- milk - 200 ml;
- Muesli - 50 g;
- water - 200 ml;
- honey - 10 g;
- Apple - 1 pc .;
- salt and sugar to taste;
- ground cinnamon (optional).
Wash rice thoroughly and cook in milk in a ratio of 1: 1. Salt and sweeten porridge prepared. Transfer to a la carte plates. Add sliced apple, cottage cheese and muesli.
Immediately before use, pour honey over the dish and lightly sprinkle with cinnamon.
A nourishing morning will be presented with rice pancakes in creamy cinnamon gravy. Cooking this delicious dish will take you an hour.
It is necessary to prepare the following products:
- round grain rice - 100 g;
- milk fat content 3.2% - 1 cup;
- sour cream with a fat content of 20% - half a cup;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
- prunes - 30 g;
- flour - 125 g;
- butter - 25 g;
- raisins - 20 g;
- cinnamon (powder) - ½ g;
- salt - ¾ tsp;
- water.
Mix all ingredients thoroughly. From the prepared dough to bake pancakes. Rinse the rice, then pour it with a glass of water. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat, without closing the lid, 8-10 minutes, until all the water boils away. Pour the milk into the pan, add a tablespoon of sugar, a little salt, bring to the boil again, and cook the rice for another 10 minutes, stirring regularly. Add butter to the finished rice mass, mix well.
Cut prunes into small pieces, raisins - into 2 parts, add fruit to porridge. Combine the flour with sugar, sour cream, egg and cinnamon, beat everything. For each pancake put the same portion of rice porridge, roll them up and put them on a baking sheet. Pour sweet sour cream sauce. Bake rolls in the oven at 220 ° C for 10-15 minutes.
In order for the morning was not quite normal, you can please the household delicious rice pudding with strawberries. It will take:
- rice groats - 140 g;
- coconut milk - 0.5 l;
- strawberries - 200 g;
- coconut flakes - 3 tbsp. l .;
- refined sugar - 30 g
Cook rice for 10 minutes until semi-ready. Strawberries in a blender, then combine with refined. From the saucepan with the rice drain the water, add the milk and coconut chips there. Boil on low heat for about a quarter of an hour, remembering to stir. Ensure that the milk is not completely evaporated. Ready pudding decomposed into bowls, pour strawberry syrup and put to cool.
Just before use, decorate the dish with fresh strawberries.
Quick and easy for lunch
For a quick snack at noon, you can prepare a salad of crab sticks in a matter of minutes. You will need the following products:
- crab sticks - 20 g;
- rice - 1.5 cups;
- mayonnaise;
- canned corn - can;
- egg - 2 pcs .;
- salt - on the tip of a knife;
- greens - to taste.
Boil rice and cool. Hard boiled chicken eggs. Crab sticks cut into cubes. Chop eggs, chop the greens. Drain excess liquid from corn. All ingredients mix and season with mayonnaise.
Dietaryists can make a salad using wild rice. It is necessary to prepare:
- wild rice - 150 g;
- tomatoes (small) - 4-6 pieces;
- shrimp - 210 g;
- sugar - 3 tbsp. l .;
- lemon (medium) -1 pc .;
- ginger root - 50 g;
- hot pepper - 1 pc .;
- lime - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 1 pc .;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- basil - optional;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Boil rice. Shrimp also boil, peel, pour with butter and lemon juice, sprinkle with chopped garlic. Ginger root should be grated on a fine grater, chopped pepper for the sauce. Squeeze juice from limes, grate zest. All products mix, add sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves.Sauce pour rice, put sliced tomatoes and shrimps on top.
For lunch you can cook a delicious and hearty soup of tomatoes and rice. The dish will relieve stress, localize internal inflammatory processes, enrich the body with vitamins A, B, E, K, R.
You will need the following products:
- meat with sugar bone - 300 g;
- onions - 2 pcs .;
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- rice cereal - 2.5 Art. l .;
- ketchup - 40 g;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- butter - 30 g;
- Lavrushka - 2 leaves;
- greens - at will;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Wash meat, cook. Put potato cubes into boiling broth, add salt. Washed rice lay to the potatoes. Saute vegetables, pour ketchup and stew in a frying pan, covered with a lid, a few minutes, add pepper. Add vegetables to almost cooked potatoes. Then cook the dish on a small fire for five minutes, sprinkle with chopped greens.
Light for dinner
In the hot summer days you want to taste something tasty, but not heavy for the stomach. This dish will be rice with vegetables. For its preparation you will need:
- rice cereal - 1.5 cups;
- tomato - 4 pcs .;
- garlic - 3 slices;
- Eggplant - 2 pcs .;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- carrot - 2 pcs .;
- zucchini - 1 pc .;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- vegetable oil;
- seasoning;
- salt.
Rinse rice thoroughly, waiting until the water stops being muddy.
Boil the croup in a conventional saucepan or using a slow cooker. Wash vegetables, peel, cut into small slices. Put blue ones on a hot pan with oil. In another pan fry zucchini and pepper. Carrots and onions spasserovat in a separate form.
Then mix the whole frying pan of three pans, add chopped tomatoes and leave to stew under a lid for 6 minutes. Season vegetables with spices, chopped garlic, salt. Combine the rice with vegetables and give the dish a little brew.
Another recipe for a light dinner is rice cereal with mushrooms. Would need:
- croup - one and a half circles;
- mushrooms - 1 kg;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 3 slices;
- vegetable oil;
- for seasoning peppers mix, paprika - 5 g;
- salt - to taste.
Wash the croup, cook. Rinse the mushrooms thoroughly, chop gently. Onions cut into cubes, carrots - strips. Fry mushrooms to an appetizing crust, add spices, salt, onion, garlic and carrots. Put the rice in the pan to the mushrooms, fry for 7 minutes. After cooking, the pan should be covered with a lid so that the ingredients are saturated with each other's flavors.
As an ornament for the dish, you can use any greens, for example, chopped dill.
For dinner, you can treat yourself to sweets - porridge with fruit and honey dressing. Need to prepare:
- rice - mugs;
- banana - 1 pc .;
- Apple - 2 pcs .;
- milk - 400 ml;
- honey - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- salt - on the tip of a knife;
- Cinnamon - a pinch.
Rice cereal rinse until clear water. Boil the cereal in milk with salt and sugar. After cooking, close the pan with a lid so that the product is infused. Peel apples and bananas, cut into cubes of medium size. Fruits stew in a heated pan with two tablespoons of water, at the end add cinnamon. Put porridge on a la carte plates, garnish with stewed fruit and season with honey.
Original recipes
And a few more unusual options for dishes using rice.
In the oven
In the oven, you can cook an amazing amount of delicious culinary masterpieces. Baked rice dishes are not only tasty, fragrant, but also very satisfying and healthy.
In order for the rice after baking to have a beautiful appearance, it is important to know how much liquid to add to the grits, so that it is crumbly, and not boiled softly. To obtain the desired consistency, each housewife chooses her own cooking option. Someone boils it before half open, someone fries in vegetable or olive oil. For baking, large refractory molds or portions of clay pots are suitable.
Choosing cereals directly depends on what you want to do.
For the basis of porridges and casseroles, a variety of round grain rice is taken, and for cooking meat, mushroom and vegetable dishes, long grain rice is chosen, although according to their taste characteristics, both types of the product are completely identical.
In good rice, all grains are the same size. If you do not have enough time for cooking, give preference to steamed rice, dishes with it are cooked faster.
For a solemn occasion, you can cook chicken stuffed with rice. It will take:
- chicken carcass;
- rice cereal - 1 cup;
- sour cream - 45 g;
- vegetable oil - 35 ml;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- salt pepper.
Wash the chicken and put it on a napkin for draining excess liquid. Coat the carcass with sour cream and chopped garlic. Then cook the stuffing. Cook the cereal until half cooked, chop and sauté the vegetables. All ingredients combine, salt, add spices, mix.
Start the mixture with a chicken and fasten the carcass with toothpicks (you can make several stitches with threads). It is necessary to bake meat from one and a half to two hours.
During cooking, do not forget to pour the meat with your own juice, then the result will please with an appetizing crust.
In order to make pleasant to all households, it is enough to cook rice baked with meat. As a meat component can be used beef, pork or lamb. You can add meat at once of several types.
If you are a big fan of chicken, for the basics you can take it. Thighs, wings, breast and lower legs will do.
Vegetables, pre-fried and then stewed with meat and cereal, are perfect for a side dish.
For one pot dishes will need:
- croup - half a cup;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- meat - 180 g;
- olive oil - 75 ml;
- broth (water) - 200 ml;
- bow - 1 head;
- salt, seasoning.
Grate carrots, chop onions. Vegetables sauté with a few spoons of butter. In the same mixture fry rice, 6-8 minutes. Cut meat, fry. Put in a pot in layers: meat, cereals, vegetables, pour broth, salt, add spices. Heat the oven to 180 degrees, cook the contents of the pot for 35 minutes.
Together with rice you can bake not only meat, but also fish. A dish with it will not only be very appetizing, but also saturate the body with useful amino acids.
You can cook fish with rice in a large bowl or in pots by the number of people. Salmon, cod, pollack and pink salmon are suitable as a base.
It will take:
- fresh frozen fish - half a kilo;
- sweet pepper -1 pc .;
- croup - 1 cup (it is better to take steamed rice);
- tomato paste - 30 g;
- flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l .;
- mayonnaise - a small jar;
- salt and pepper.
- seasoning.
Chop the onion, grate the carrot. Defrost fish fillet, remove bones and chop. Salt, breaded in flour and fry.
Cook the cereal until half cooked, chop the sweet pepper into strips. Put in shape in the following sequence: rice, carrot and onion zazharku, fillets, sweet peppers, on top make a mayonnaise net. Salt and sprinkle with seasoning. Mix the tomato paste with water and pour the dish into the mixture. Put in the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 30 minutes.
In the slow cooker
Cooking in a slow cooker is a pleasure. This is facilitated by its numerous options - special modes for some dishes (“Pilaf”, “Porridge”, “Buckwheat”), uniform heating of prepared foods, the possibility of delaying the start of cooking for a specified time.
For cooking in a slow cooker lazy cabbage rolls, you will need:
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- rice groats - 200 g;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- minced meat - 500 g;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- cabbage - 350 g;
- vegetable oil;
- sour cream;
- tomato paste;
- salt, seasoning.
The specified number of products is designed for four people.
Groats must be washed and put on the mode of "Porridge". Boil until semi-ready. Cabbage chop and pour hot water. Leave for 5 minutes. Then add the minced meat, onion, cereal, egg, salt, pepper. Roll the patties, breaded in flour. Pour oil into the bowl and set the “Frying” mode. Fry the cabbage rolls on each side for several minutes.
In the butter from under the stuffed cabbage is prepared and sauce. For this, the carrot is rubbed, the Bulgarian pepper is cut into small cubes, the vegetables are passaged in the “Frying” mode. In the roasting put cabbage rolls. At the same time preparing the sauce itself. Sour cream, water from under the cabbage, salt, tomato paste and seasoning are mixed and poured on the cabbage rolls. The dish is cooked for another 45 minutes in the “Baking” mode.
To prepare traditional pilaf in a slow cooker, you will need:
- a pound of meat;
- onion - 2 pcs .;
- vegetable oil;
- rice - 1.5 cups;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- water - 3.5 cups.
Wash the meat thoroughly and cut into small cubes, add seasoning, salt. Pour the butter into the bowl and fry the meat for a quarter of an hour. Carrots chop straws, onion - half rings. Combine vegetables with meat and fry for another 10 minutes. Pour in hot water and stew the dish for another couple of minutes.
Rinse the rice, add to the semi-finished mass, smooth out everything. Put unpeeled garlic cloves in the middle of the dish. Bring the dish to readiness in the "Pilaf" mode.
Serve pilaf is recommended with a salad of fresh vegetables.
On the stove
Delicious dishes using rice can also be cooked in a conventional griddle. So, it is easy to surprise your friends with a dish of international cuisine, which is called “Japanese-style rice without meat”.
Required Products:
- rice groats - 1 mug (it is better to choose Krasnodar);
- garlic - 4 small cloves;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs. (products must be at room temperature, otherwise there is a risk of their clotting);
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- green onions - a few feathers (can be replaced with dill);
- Kikkoman sauce.
Wash rice and put to stew. Salt Stir the croup regularly so that the grains do not stick to the sides of the pan. Cook the cereal until half cooked.
Garlic must be prepared while cooking rice. Peel and chop it. You can use the press, but then all the juice from the product will flow out and it will not be so fragrant, only the cake will remain.
Pour the oil into the pan, wait until it is warm, put the chopped garlic. Put the same rice. To the rice-garlic mass add the beaten eggs, mix.
Chop onions, send to rice. Mix ingredients, fry a couple of minutes, continuing to stir. Pour half a cup of water, cover the form with a lid and simmer for a quarter of an hour. From the finished pot, the dish is laid out in portions and soaked with soy dressing.
If you want a rice side dish not with gravy, but with gravy, it is easy to make the latter. It is enough to combine soy sauce with chopped herbs and garlic. You can serve fresh salad to the dish.
On the stove you can cook not only an appetizing dish for lunch and dinner, but also porridge for breakfast. For the preparation of many favorite rice porridge with dried fruits will need:
- milk - 2 cups;
- dried fruits (any) - 150 g;
- rice - 1 cup;
- margarine - ¼ packs;
- lump sugar - 45 g;
- vanilla extract - 5 ml;
- salt.
Dried fruits put in a saucepan, add boiling water. Insist half an hour. Then rinse, give excess moisture to drain.
Wash rice in several waters. Pour milk and leave for 25 minutes. Then put the prepared mass on the stove, cover and cook for ½ hour. At the end of cooking, add butter and sugar to the porridge. Mix thoroughly, put the dried fruit. Tightly close the lid and infuse for 20 minutes.
Porridge must be consumed immediately, otherwise over time it will lose its taste and aroma.
Rice dish from Ilya Lazerson, see the following video.