Rice

This recipe is inspired by mujadara, a simple combination of lentils, rice, and onions that exists in various forms across the Middle East. It's comforting but not too rich, and it's fresh and vegetarian without relying on many perishable ingredients. In other words, it's the perfect meal for the nights in between holiday parties.

A riot of textures and sweet-and-savory flavors, this dish is anything but your typical Thanksgiving wild rice salad. 

A family recipe, re-developed.

For this vegetarian main, crispy-sweet red onions roast alongside the squash for a finishing dose of flavor and texture.

This satisfying rice dish can often be an elaborate, ambitious affair, but our version simplifies the process without sacrificing any complexity of flavor.

Think outside the Thanksgiving leftover sandwich box and make this crispy, crunchy, can’t-stop-eating it dish.  

A very good excuse for always making a little extra rice. 

Best eaten alone. On the couch. While watching a movie you've already seen.

A deeply savory rice porridge topped with kimchi, scallions, peanuts, and shallots.

A coconutty Malaysian rice bowl topped with crispy-crunchy crumbles of teeny little fried anchovies dressed in a sweet-spicy sambal.

This iconic Gujarati dish is sweet with jaggery, spicy with green chiles, and sour with lime juice. And it’s exactly what you’d eat if you walked into Tailor chef Vivek Surti’s mother’s house in India.

Lightning-fast weeknight fried rice with flavor-concentrated cherry tomatoes. How? It’s a little salting trick.

Use the smallest tomatoes you can find at the market for this recipe—they’ll be extra sweet.

Soaking softens whole grains and shortens cooking time; feel free to sub farro, brown rice, or barley.

Balance is nice, but you gotta shake it up sometimes.

Well-seasoned sushi rice is like rice in technicolor.

The tastiest rice is seasoned sushi rice.

Leftover basmati rice gets gussied up with earthy fried mustard seeds and curry leaves, sweet caramelized, crunchy peanuts, and spicy chiles.

That's the maximum number of ingredients I'm willing to deal with when sick.

In this weeknight recipe, magical, salty, umami-packed fish sauce is doing double-duty as a seasoning in the meatball mixture and as a part of the finishing sauce.

It’s worth planning ahead for this vibrant, springy pilaf recipe that’s made all the better by day-old rice.

Steamed rice topped with crunchy, gochujang-dressed veggies never leaves the menu.

Fancy Nancy's roast chicken with schmaltzy rice and kale is irresistible—and surprisingly simple to make at home.

The scallion-ginger oil served alongside the chicken and rice puts this recipe over the top.