57 rice bowl recipes

Tangy, sweet Japanese-style pickled carrots, thinly sliced or julienned, ready in hours. Perfect as a side for sushi, rice bowls, grilled meats or for wraps.

Properly seasoned sushi rice with a sweet vinegar mixture, soaked and steamed for sticky, glossy grains. Includes stovetop and rice cooker methods. The foundation for homemade sushi rolls, nigiri, and poke bowls.

Okra shoyu-zuke quick-pickles thinly sliced raw okra and onion in rice vinegar and soy sauce. Three-ingredient Japanese refrigerator pickle ready in minutes for rice bowls and bento.

Nuoc cham Vietnamese dipping sauce with fish sauce, chili, garlic, vinegar, and lemon juice. The essential condiment for spring rolls, pho, rice bowls, and grilled meats.

Vegetarian pinto beans and brown rice bowl with fresh vegetables, cilantro, salsa, and yogurt. A healthy, fiber-packed Mexican-style meal ready in 20 minutes.

Pickled spring garlic in vinegar and sweetened soy sauce, Korean-style. Slow ferment that mellows young garlic into tender, savory cloves perfect for rice bowls and grilled meats.

A 30-minute curry rice bowl with spinach, black beans, and tomatoes. Naturally vegetarian, high-fiber, and built almost entirely from pantry staples and the freezer.

Quick microwave vegetable rice bowl with tender parsnips, black beans, and wilted bok choy in light teriyaki for healthy 20-minute plant-based dinners.

Smoky black bean salsa with roasted poblano, chipotle in adobo, pomegranate juice, and toasted cumin. A more refined warm salsa for grilled fish, tacos, or rice bowls.

Casco Bay Rice tosses brown rice with shrimp, crab, marinated artichoke hearts, and tomatoes in a sherry-white wine sauce. A coastal Maine-inspired seafood rice bowl ready in 30 minutes.

Cabbage miso soup with chewy sweet rice flour dumplings in a savory broth. A warming, gluten-free Japanese-inspired bowl ready in 30 minutes.

Rice and garden vegetable is a pantry-fast bowl: whole grain brown rice stirred into reduced-sodium vegetable soup and warmed through in minutes. An easy, low-effort meal with a kick of cracked pepper.

Hot chicken and rice soup topped with a fresh, chunky guacamole of avocado, serrano chile, tomato, cilantro, and lime. Mexican comfort in a bowl with warm tortillas.

White beans and hijiki seaweed tossed with rice and braised red cabbage in balsamic vinegar, finished with tamari for a hearty vegan bowl packed with plant protein.

Soba noodles with snow pea greens and shiitake mushrooms in a shallot-chili-soy-rice wine sauce. An oil-free Japanese-style noodle bowl with deep umami and tender seasonal greens.

Cream chicken soup with rivels and rice in a rich broth of whole milk, heavy cream, and chicken stock. An old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch-style comfort bowl.