How do you eat brown rice?

With chicken stir fry and lots of veggies!

I steam mine (takes almost 1.5 to 1.75 times longer than white rice) and eat it plain as a side dish. I love the taste and texture and so do my kids. Sometimes will add a very small amount of margarine and lemon juice over it.

If I'm not eating in with stir fry, I usually add a bit of roasted garlic with some olive oil, or garlic, butter, and parmesan cheese..just whatever comes to mind.

I make mine with low sodium chicken broth.

I guess I'm boring I just have it plain with a tad of butter

Cook it in chicken broth so it picks up some more flavor and then saute some peppers, onions, and mushrooms with some garlic and mix it all together... instant side disk! Or us it with anything that has a sauce

You can mix it up by adding a pkg of vegetable soup mix (look for low fat/sodium options). It's really good with onion soup mix too.

I've also cooked it with freshly crushed/minced garlic cloves & finely diced fresh ginger. No fat or sodium is added this way!

Lots of ideas already posted are awesome, here are a few more I use:
- Eat it plain, or mixed with a small handful of craisins and pecans (or walnuts). It's almost like stuffing.
- Eat it for breakfast, warm, with skim milk and stevia (or your sweetner of choice). Add in raisins if you like. I do this instead of oatmeal sometimes.
- Saute bits of your favorite veggies (I use zuchinni, yellow squash, and onion), then add in the rice. Spice with black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, and oregano. In the meantime, hollow out a bell pepper and steam it in a steamer basket for about 7 minutes. Fill the bell pepper with the mixture, top with a can of diced tomatoes, and bake in the oven for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Sprinkle with a bit of parm cheese and serve. Sometimes I mix white meat chicken into the mix, and I typically make about 4 of these at a time - that's just right for the can of diced tomatoes. My BF will eat 2 for dinner, I'll have one, and still have one for lunch the next day.
- Add to a vegetable soup for a heartier meal

Hope that gets you started. I find it's much more diverse than white rice because of it's nuttiness. It can go savory or sweet, and keeps you full longer with the extra fiber.

I eat it with my eyes closed and nose plugged! ☺

In a stirfry with veggies and tofu. Or plain. Or with adzuki beans. I love brown rice...so many ways to prepare it...all are tasty.

You could also add some to a bowl of chili and stir it up. Adds fiber and tastes good.

I like plain, with a little spray butter and chicken breast!

I eat it with many things, stir fry, steak, chicken with whatever you would normall eat rice with.

Here's how I prepare mine:

Heat a little olive oil in a saute pan, add rice and cook until rice starts to brown then I add chicken broth instead of water one cup at a time and let the first cup or so almost evaporate then I finish adding and let if cook. It gives the rice a nutty flavor to sautee it a bit before adding the liquid and the chicken broth just gives it some flavor, you could use veggie broth too or a mixture, even a cup of broth will help the overall flavor of the rice.

All of the above ways are good. I also like to mix in a can of diced tomatoes seasoned with basil and oregano and have that as my side dish to some chicken (cooked in a variety of ways). It's also tasty with a little low fat shredded cheese mixed in.

This thread is awesome!