Rice/21 recipes

Creamy goat cheese adds wonderful flavor to this savory salad.

Pantry-friendly vegetable salad made from canned green beans, baby carrots, and beets, tossed in a lemon-tarragon vinaigrette with fresh cucumber and green onions.

Pressure cooker saffron brown rice with mushrooms, leeks, carrots, and fennel seeds. A one-pot vegetarian side that cooks hands-off in 25 minutes.

This is an excellent pizza, and I added some minced garlic too, because my husband and I we both love garlic, and flavour was still so great!

The secret to tender baked beans is to leave the salt out until they are finished cooking. For some reason, salt toughens them. To pamper your tummy, rinse off the beans when they are finished soaking in several changes of cold water. This recipe is easy to prepare ahead and cooks in only two hours.

One-dish curried chicken baked over rice with dried fruit, raisins, and onion. The chicken roasts on top while the rice absorbs all those warm, fragrant juices. Serves 6.

Quick white bean chicken chili loaded with green chiles, cumin, and a bright hit of lime and cilantro. One pot, 40 minutes, feeds 8 hungry people.

Sam Huddleston's chili is a no-bean Texas-style chili with cubed beef, toasted cumin seed, paprika, and chili powder, thickened with cracker meal at the end. Proper bowl of red.

Peachy pork chops stuffed with a sage and peach bread dressing, then baked over more stuffing with a peach preserve glaze. Sunday dinner with sweet-savory Southern charm.

Mexican-style lasagna with ground beef, green chilies, corn, and cheddar cheese layered in a cumin-spiced picante tomato sauce. Topped with sour cream and olives.

Braised baby goat with ground saffron-almond paste, pancetta, tomatoes, and potatoes. A one-pot Mediterranean stew with deep, complex flavor built from that almond-saffron base.

Build-your-own chicken tacos with a slow-caramelized garlic and onion base, serrano chiles, dual paprikas, and toasted cumin. Simmered chicken filling served with radishes, pinto beans, sour cream, and cilantro for a generous taco-night spread.

A quick one-skillet meal with sauteed chicken, creamy cannellini beans, wilted spinach, and tomatoes in a rosemary-scented broth. High-protein, veggie-loaded, and on the table in 25 minutes.

Quick steak and vegetable soup with seared sirloin, potatoes, carrots, and peas in beef broth with balsamic vinegar. A hearty weeknight soup ready in 35 minutes.

Adapted from “Jacques Pépin Celebrates” (Knopf, 2001)- New York Times

Shrimp simmered in a coconut milk sauce with tomatoes, leeks, orange juice concentrate, mint, and Thai chili paste, served over basmati rice. A one-skillet dinner with sweet, spicy, and creamy notes in every spoonful.