Healthy Rice Recipes

A fast dinner recipe perfect for busy weeknights, this easy stir-fry recipe will quickly become a favorite. To save time, use precooked rice or cook rice a day ahead.

This tuna bowl is quite an easy recipe you'll want to make again and again. Black sesame seeds make this dish look dramatic because they provide contrast against the fish, but if you can't find toasted black sesame seeds, you can use toasted white sesame seeds. The flavor will be the same.

This easy Persian-inspired chicken and rice dish has a beautiful golden color and a wonderful fragrance. If you have saffron in the cupboard, do add that optional pinch; just a little will enhance the flavor and aroma of the dish.

This Middle-Eastern-inspired dish uses just a small amount of lamb to stuff the eggplant, which keeps the saturated fat in check. It calls for cooked brown rice, which you can prepare up to a day ahead. Save time by using instant brown rice, which cooks in under 10 minutes.

In this healthy stuffed peppers recipe, a delicious jambalaya filling of chicken and Cajun spices gets baked inside of bell peppers. Traditional jambalaya is made with green bell peppers, but you can use green, yellow, or orange peppers (or a mix) for this dish. Look for bell peppers with even bottoms, so that they stand upright on their own.

Skip the takeout and try this easy sushi recipe at home. A twist on the classic California roll, these are as much fun to make as they are to eat. Rolling with the rice on the outside takes a little extra dexterity but the eye-catching sushi-bar results make it worth it.

This burrito recipe may lack a tortilla but it doesn't lack anything in taste. Spicy shredded pork, crisp and vibrant veggie slaw, and warm pineapple-lime rice combine to deliver a beautiful presentation in your bowl.

Who doesn't love a creamy dish of risotto? Fennel adds a light, fresh taste to this no-cheese vegan version, which is bursting with crisp-tender asparagus and green beans, peppery arugula, and zesty radishes.

This homemade rice pudding is a sweet treat after any meal. Apricots and orange peel combine with the complex flavor of cardamom to deliver intense flavor to this simple dessert recipe.

Stuffed peppers are a classic family meal--and they're fun to eat, too. Instead of roasting the sweet peppers in the oven, use an air fryer to get them crisp-tender but not soggy.

This homemade Asian-inspired fried rice recipe with fresh, crisp-tender vegetables is a vegetarian crowd-pleaser.

A frozen rice and veggie mix saves lots of prep time in this dinner recipe. Slice up a sirloin steak, sauté it with onions, add in some canned tomatoes and seasoning, and in just 20 minutes you've got six servings of a delicious steak, veggie, and rice dish.

Seared pork chops topped with sautéed apples and onions are served over brown rice and sprinkled with thyme in this easy main dish recipe. Want something green with this meal? Pair it with steamed green beans or an arugula salad.

This bean and pork stew recipe, spiced with peppery sweet ginger and piquant cumin, is rich in soluble fiber, which helps protect against heart disease.

This 20-minute meal delivers a faster, lighter and more flavorful takeout alternative. It's chock-full of fresh, crispy veggies and juicy chicken pieces, and it reheats well for meal-prep lunches. If you like heat, sub Sriracha for some of the ketchup.

This may look like Italian potato gnocchi with red sauce, but one bite reveals more Japanese than Italian influence, because the "gnocchi" in this healthy dinner recipe are made with jasmine rice. To make sure they hold together, form them while the rice is still quite warm and use glutinous sweet rice flour. Recipe adapted from Chef Greg Harrison, Pacific'O Restaurant.

Browning the chicken and sautéing the aromatics before everything goes into the crock pot is key to building the flavors in our version of this popular curry.

This one-pan chicken-and-broccoli recipe comes out of the oven all browned, cheesy and bubbling like a casserole, but is really prepared more like a skillet meal on the stovetop. Serve with a crunchy green salad.

Browning the flour gives this seafood gumbo recipe a distinctive rich color and flavor.

Lentils are ideal for cooking in the slow cooker. Start this recipe early in the morning and you and your family will be rewarded with a deliciously warm Mexican-inspired taco salad for dinner.