Three Tasty-Easy Recipes for Leftover Rice. Each one calls for pre-cooked rice. If you keep opening your fridge to find that little container of rice staring at you, it's time to use it up before it goes bad. Repurposing leftovers helps you to save money and reduce food waste.
Adjust the spices to your own tastes for a really great use for leftover rice!!
Thai basil has a different flavor than that of regular basil and makes all the difference in this recipe.
It is fast and fairly easy to make, but requires constant stirring.
You can cook Three Tasty-Easy Recipes for Leftover Rice using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Three Tasty-Easy Recipes for Leftover Rice
- You need of Ingredients for lentils rice.
- It's 1 cup of lentils.
- It's 1 cube of meat or vegetable stock.
- It's 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- Prepare of Butter.
- You need of Ingredients for herbed rice.
- It's of small bunch of chives or spring onions, finely chopped.
- You need of small bunch of dill, finely chopped.
- It's of small bunch of coriander, finely chopped.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
- It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
- You need of Olive oil.
- You need of Ingredients for rice and potatoes.
- Prepare 5 of baby potatoes.
- Prepare Pinch of chilli flakes.
- You need of butter.
- It's to taste of Salt.
If you're guilty of making too much rice (who isn't?), we've got plenty of delicious ways to repurpose the dinnertime staple. Even if you're not using short grain rice, just crush and mash your Basmati rice and mix well with the Curd. This easy-to-prepare leftover rice pudding recipe is baked in the oven and made with milk, rice, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon. It is a decadent and creamy rice pudding recipe that you can serve either as a sweet breakfast or for dessert.
Three Tasty-Easy Recipes for Leftover Rice instructions
- For lentils rice: Bring to a boil water, add lentils, one vegetable or meat stock, and cumin. Reduce heat and simmer until they are tender but not mushy(it takes typically 20-20 minutes) it depends on the age of your lentils. Once it is cooked, add it to the rice and gently mix. Sprinkle some melted butter all over the rice and serve it..
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- For herbed rice: Heat the oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add chopped herbs, seasoning with salt, pepper, cinnamon and cumin. Saute for 3-4 minutes. Remove from the heat, fluff the rice with a fork, and stir in sautéed herbs and gently combine and serve it..
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- For rice and potatoes: Put the potatoes in a pot and cover with cold water. Salt the water. Bring it to a boil and cook the potatoes until tender. Drain and add melted butter and sprinkle chilli flakes on them. Serve the rice in a plate and top it with buttery potaotes..
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We haven't banned eating plain rice and sometimes, we make way too much! So, if it happens to you too, you are in luck! The first one is a refreshing rice salad. Season your plain leftover white rice or brown and use it to make vegetarian stuffed tomatoes for a main dish or healthy side. Slice off the tops of your tomatoes, fill with a seasoned rice mixture, drizzle with olive oil and bake.