1,570 rice greek recipes

A hearty Greek brown rice salad tossing nutty whole-grain rice with tomato, cucumber, feta, kalamata olives, and creamy avocado in a lemony, minty dressing. A fresh Mediterranean grain bowl.

Kotta Pilafi, a Greek chicken pilaf with cinnamon-spiced tomato rice cooked in one pot with golden-browned chicken breasts. Served with cold sour cream for a traditional contrast.

Traditional Greek dolmas stuffed with rice, pine nuts, fresh herbs, cinnamon, and allspice, simmered in olive oil and lemon juice. This recipe makes about 50 stuffed grape leaves served at room temperature.

Dolmades yialandzi are Greek stuffed grape leaves filled with herbed rice, dill, parsley, lemon juice, and olive oil. A vegetarian meze served cold as an appetizer or light main course.

Greek octopus pilaf simmered in tomato, white wine, and oregano for an hour until tender, served over rice cooked in the braising sauce. A traditional taverna dish.

Calamaria Gemista: traditional Greek stuffed squid filled with rice, pine nuts, currants, and fresh herbs, then slow-simmered in wine and tomatoes until fork-tender.

Greek lobster plaki simmered in tomato sauce with saffron, white wine, fennel, orange juice, and fresh herbs. A luxurious Mediterranean seafood dish served over saffron rice.

Greek mussel pilaf (pilafi me mythia) cooks short grain rice directly in mussel-and-wine broth. The seafood-stock pilaf of the Aegean coast.

Greek-style stuffed tomatoes filled with herbed rice, pine nuts, currants, sunflower seeds, and fresh mint, baked until the skins just begin to split. A light, vegetarian Mediterranean side for four.

Vegetarian Greek stuffed grape leaves filled with seasoned rice, toasted pine nuts, and sweet currants. Served cold with fresh lemon wedges, these dolmathes make an elegant meze appetizer.

Tomates Yemistes are Greek stuffed tomatoes filled with arborio rice, pine nuts, currants, mint, and parsley. Baked in their own puréed juice and olive oil, served hot or cold.

Greek-spiced stuffed bread footballs filled with seasoned ground turkey, brown rice, and oregano. Football-shaped baked hand pies with sesame topping, served warm with cucumber-yogurt sauce.

Fish stuffed peppers with orzo tuck marinated rockfish inside warm roasted peppers over garlic-tomato orzo with basil. Mediterranean fish dinner with a bright coriander-lemon marinade.

Greek baked stuffed squid filled with rice, pine nuts, raisins, mint, and parsley in a tomato-white wine sauce. A traditional Mediterranean recipe slow-baked until the squid is fork-tender.

Stuffed zucchini blossoms (kolokytholouloutha yemista) filled with rice, fresh mint, parsley, tomato, and olive oil, then simmered in water. A traditional Greek vegetarian appetizer.

Traditional Greek chicken pilaf from the Epirus region. Bone-in chicken sautéed in butter with onion, simmered with cinnamon and tomato sauce, then finished with rice that absorbs every drop of flavor.