Flavoured rice recipes for dinner
Rice cooked with spices, stock, herbs or a sauce is the whole dinner, not the side. Biryani, pulao, jollof, lemon rice, nasi goreng and paella all count. Let us pick one and show you the video.
We have 912 flavoured rice dinners to pick from, all cooking videos with captions, which makes a written recipe much more likely to work.
Flavoured rice dinners people cook
A few of the flavoured rice videos we pick from, each from a YouTube creator. Tap one to watch it, or use the button above to have one picked for you.
Shaheen Syed · 5:55
Spice Eats · 5:09
Cocinemosjuntos.com · 11:58
Kunal Kapur · 4:23
Kabita's Kitchen · 6:43
Madras Samayal · 4:18
NishaMadhulika · 5:09
Veggie Recipe House · 1:58
Tips for flavoured rice
- Wash basmati in a few changes of cold water until it runs almost clear, so the grains cook up separate rather than sticky.
- Fry the onions and whole spices in the oil first, then stir the rice through before the liquid goes in, so every grain picks up the flavour.
- Once the liquid is in, keep the lid on and leave it alone: lifting it lets out the steam that finishes the rice.
How it works
Tap the button and we pick a flavoured rice dinner at random from our cooking videos. Not feeling it? Pick again; you will not see the same video twice this visit. Happy with it? Watch it on YouTube, or tap "Get the written recipe" and sign in with Google to get the ingredients and steps written out.
Questions about flavoured rice dinners
What counts as flavoured rice?
Rice cooked with the flavour in it: spices, stock, herbs, coconut milk, tomato or a sauce. We pick from videos whose title names a dish like biryani, pulao, pilaf, jollof, paella, jambalaya, nasi goreng or fried rice, or a flavoured rice such as lemon, coconut or jeera rice.
How is this different from the rice page?
The rice page picks any dinner made with rice, including a curry or stir-fry served over plain rice. This page only picks dishes where the rice itself carries the flavour.
What is the difference between pulao and biryani?
Pulao usually cooks the rice and everything else together in one pot. Biryani usually layers part-cooked rice with a separately cooked curry and steams them, so it takes longer. Recipes vary, so follow the video.
Can I pick a vegan or vegetarian flavoured rice dinner?
Yes. This page offers vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian with eggs and pork-free. We only pick from videos chosen for that diet whose title names nothing it excludes, so glance at the recipe as well.
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