Recipes with rice

Cooking with rice

Rice is the base of quick skillets, bowls and curries, and leftover cooked rice is one of the best shortcuts for a fast dinner. Our rice recipes run from 15-minute egg fried rice to yellow rice for bobotie and a creamy rice pudding.

This page has 18 recipes with rice: 16 dinners, 1 lunch and 1 dessert. 13 are ready in 30 minutes or less, and the quickest is Egg Fried Rice at 15 minutes. In these recipes, rice most often goes with onion, garlic and chicken.

Short on time? Try Chicken Fried Rice (20 min) and Lemon Spinach Rice Skillet (20 min).

Tips for rice

• Cool leftover cooked rice quickly, ideally within an hour, then put it in the fridge and eat it within 24 hours.
• Reheat rice until it is steaming hot all the way through, and reheat it only once.
• Rice cooked in stock instead of water, as in a one-pan skillet, takes on more flavour.
• Rinse rice in cold water before cooking for separate, less sticky grains.
• Yellow rice, cooked with turmeric, cinnamon and raisins, is the classic side for bobotie.

Sources: Food Standards Scotland: rice