What to cook with rice

380 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use rice. 179 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indian, Thai and Peruvian recipes.

recipes use it: 380
are built around it: 179
median total time: 1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less: 60

Recipes built around rice

With rice, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with rice

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with rice, out of 380 recipes.

Garlic54% of recipes
Onion51% of recipes
Ginger22% of recipes
Cumin23% of recipes
Turmeric19% of recipes
Bay leaf17% of recipes
Olive oil22% of recipes
Saffron10% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 214 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1½ cups. Half of them fall between 1 to 2 cups.

Where rice shows up

Cuisines

Indian38
Thai24
Peruvian19
Brazilian14

Courses

Dinner195
Side49
Dessert25

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.