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Tropical chicken salad with rice, pineapple, banana, grapes, and coconut in a light yogurt-mayo dressing. No cooking required, just toss and serve for a refreshing lunch in 10 minutes.

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.

A chunky vegetarian minestrone loaded with cannellini beans, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, and spinach, thickened with rice instead of pasta. A hearty, one-pot Italian soup finished with Parmesan.

Low-calorie saffron chicken braised with mushrooms, peas, and olives in a creamy paprika sauce, served over rice. Skinless chicken breasts keep it light and lean.

Roasted Cornish hen halves perched on sage-scented wild rice mounds, glazed with apple juice concentrate and served with roasted apple slices. An elegant dinner for four.

Pork jambalaya browns cubed pork in olive oil, then simmers with long-grain rice, bell pepper, scallions, white wine, and hot sauce. One-pot Cajun classic with a Bayou-style mint accent.

Marinated wild rice salad with porcini and white mushrooms, julienned carrots, walnuts, and Dijon vinaigrette. A make-ahead grain salad that gets better as it sits.

Savory phyllo strudel filled with Spam, rice, mushrooms, and colorful vegetables seasoned with Dijon mustard and basil. A creative way to dress up canned meat.

Wild rice and lentil salad with brown rice, tri-color bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, and fresh herbs in a fat-free tomato-herb vinaigrette. A colorful, high-fiber grain salad.

Grilled bonito fillets over rice with a Caribbean Andalouse sauce of eggplant, bell peppers, tomatoes, and white wine spiked with Bajan seasoning and pepper sauce.

My favorite pierogi are filled with the veal lung or the brown lentils. Why not to combine these ingredients into the one filling?

A favourite served at Din Tai Fung gets a healthy make-over. Water spinach, commonly known as kangkong, is rich in fibre, magnesium, vitamins A and C and is very low in calories. Word of caution: do not eat it raw as it may carry parasitic cysts from the waterways that are its natural habitat.

Boudin du pays is a traditional Quë©bécois blood pudding sauce made from fresh pork, lung, heart, and neck simmered with onions, cloves, savory, and coriander.