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Top the risotto with pecorino or substitute with grana padano or parmigiano reggiano.

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Rice, rice, baby: 20 easy dishes that go with the grain

From fully loaded rice bowls to creamy spring risotto, get ready to shake up your grain game with these midweek-friendly dishes that put rice front and centre.

20 recipes
Sticky chicken edamame lettuce cups.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s sticky chicken and edamame lettuce cups

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Golden fried rice with Chinese barbecue duck.
EASY

Golden fried rice with Chinese barbecued duck

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Risotto primavera.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s risotto primavera

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Salmon and salad rice bowl.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salmon and salad rice bowls

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Top the risotto with pecorino or substitute with grana padano or parmigiano reggiano.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s pea, lemon and pecorino risotto

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Tom yum fried rice.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s tom yum fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Crispy rice salad with sambal peanut sauce.

Rosheen Kaul’s crispy rice salad with sambal peanut sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosheen Kaul
RecipeTin Eats’ spicy tuna sushi roll bowls.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ spicy tuna midweek dinner

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Rice bowls with caramelised pork sausage.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s sticky pork sausage rice bowls

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Sesame-fried egg bibimbap.

Rosheen Kaul’s sesame-fried egg bibimbap

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Serve with rice and green.
EASY

Japanese miso-glazed eggplant rice bowl

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
XO, shiitake mushroom and bacon fried rice.
EASY

XO, shiitake mushroom and bacon fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Danielle Alvarez’s lemony spinach, dill and feta rice pilaf.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s spanakorizo (spinach rice)

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Miso grilled chicken rice bowl.
EASY

Donna Hay’s miso grilled chicken rice bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Donna Hay
"Singapore" fried rice with prawns.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Singapore fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Satay chicken with cucumber salad and coconut rice is easy yet impressive.
EASY

Sarah Pound’s satay chicken bowls with cucumber salad and coconut rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Donburi with kingfish and tuna sashimi.
EASY

Sashimi rice bowls (donburi)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busutil Nishimura’s oyakodon (chicken and rice bowls).
EASY

Oyakodon (chicken and egg rice bowls)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Grain bowls are an easy, healthy and delicious choice.
EASY

Black pepper and makrut lime beef bowl with coconut rice and salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Gochujang chicken bibimbap bowl.
EASY

Shredded chicken bibimbap bowl with spicy barbecue sauce and slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink