What’s your favorite rice dish?
Something else?
There are so many …
In your whole long list you left off BIRYANI? Come on!
My top 3;
It is hard to pick a favorite. I guess I like steamed short or medium grain the best. I like it with black beans but side by side, not mixed up. Lately I have been enjoying it steamed and topped with butter and soy sauce because I got a hold of my favorite French butter. I could eat bowl after bowl of that if I allowed myself. It is comfort food to me.
Kedgeree.
Rice con queso from mid-Century “Diet for a Small Planet”. Rice, black beans, cheese, green chiles…what’s not to love! A super buffet or pot luck contribution.
“Peas and rice” ( or rice and peas 
)! With pigeon peas/gandules.
Not really, but it’s what I make the most. Probably risotto.
We have only the greatest admiration for cooks who turn leftover plain rice into delicacies (when done well) such as congee and fried rice. We’ve been around long enough to understand from those who can, that no real cook makes rice solely to make fried rice or congee.
Spanakorizo
Omurice
Arancini
Suppli
Arroz con Pollo
Greek chicken stuffed with rice
Yemista (Greek rice-stuffed veg)
Plov
Armenian pilaf with rice and vermicelli
There is no way to pick a favorite rice dish. But if I had no choice but to pick one I’d probably go with fried rice just because I become a bottomless pit when eating it .
My favorite rice dish? Yes.
My answer is
“Yes”
Plus dum biryani.
Oops, Steve beat me to my answer by 0.01 seconds.
Congrats, Steve.
Had to look that one up. Sounds great.
•Paella Valenciana
• any sushi: maki, temaki, uramaki, nigiri
• my fried rice
• Near Eastern Rice Pilaff mix in a box (the original)
•my Mom’s rice stuffing that I still haven’t gotten right, yet
• a brown and wild rice stuffing recipe I have
That’s enough.
Hainanese Chicken Rice.
My top rice dish is a bengali biryani I make. It too has potatoes.
Unfortunately, most restaurant biryanis are an afterthought. They seem to put so little effort in it and even on the menu they are often listed last. I’ve had a couple of great ones over the years and my restaurant favorite right now is only made on weekends.
Pork chops and gravy over white rice.
I’ve loved this since I was a kid.
And can’t forget rice pudding.
I buy rice in 50 lb bags, and it’s just Mrs. ricepad and me at home. Fifty lbs lasts us about eight months, I think. When the spawns still lived at home, we went through 50 lbs in about three months. (Doing the math, you can safely conclude that Mrs. ricepad doesn’t eat her share.) And when new crop becomes available, I get a bag no matter how much we still have on hand!
