Brown rice recipe ideas

Great thread to start! I do pretty basic things with it. Like add kidney or black beans, celery and garlic, or i'll toss in a bag of frozen veggies and add some salt, pepper, and garlic powder. I love the boil-in-bag brown rice. It's all I use!

This warm brown rice salad is seriously one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten: http://articles.boston.com/2009-04-22/travel/29264509_1_brown-rice-beet-maple-syrup

You can sub brown rice for white rice in any recipe that calls for white rice. When I make fried rice, I use brown rice instead of white rice. The basic recipe I use is from the food network: Shrimp Fried Rice (Sara Moulton). The rice should be made early in the day or the night before. Once the rice is done make sure you uncover it so it won't get mushy. Or, spread it out on a cookie sheet until it cools down. I also make mexican rice with brown rice. (I am sure my great grandmother and grandmother are turning in their graves....) By the way, I don't have a recipe for the mexican rice. It is kind of one of those things where I use a little bit of that and little bit of that over there and lot of that and somehow it comes out fine. I like to go on the food network and cooking light websites to look for recipes. I am sure they have several recipes for brown rice that you can experiment with

Here is a link to a mexican rice recipe: http://patismexicantable.com/2009/06/red-rice-from-el-chepe.html. I have not tried this recipe but have tried other recipes on this site and they were pretty good. It is different than the rice I make. My family is from Texas so it is different than the rice you will find in Mexico. I don't measure and to be honest with you, when I make it usually means that my mother is standing over my shoulder directing me. The basic recipe goes something like this...toast 1 cup of rice in a dry pan (cast iron will work) until the rice is brown. Than place onion in the pan and tomato sauce and chicken broth (This is all by sight or my mother directing me.) You also add a dash or maybe 1/4 tsp of cumin and salt. Almost forgot you need to cover the rice until the liquid is absorb. I am sorry I cannot be more detailed. Look up the recipe and try it. Like I said I have sub brown rice for the white rice. It give it a different taste since the brown rice has a nutty flavor.

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I, too, use brown rice to make fried rice and Ellie Krueger from the Food Network has a really good Brown Rice and Black Bean recipe. Buying those little precooked rice packets can be pricey, try making your own and keeping some in the refrigerator. I like having it on hand to add a whole grain to a pre-packaged diet meal (I lost my weight on Nutrisytem.)

Here is a cooking tip: Cook the rice as you would pasta. Put the raw rice into a pot of boiling, lightly salted, water and let it boil for 40 minutes. Drain in a colander. (If you are going to save the rice for future uses, Sara Moulton recommends rinsing it. That way it will not be sticky after it's cooled.) I make brown rice this way and it comes out perfect every time.

I put low sodium tuna, peas, and carrots in mine then a smudge of italian dressing in it just enough to give some favor. It came out great and low in caloriies too

bumping for this!!! Thanks everbody