Equally an Asian, I'm a firm laic that you tin can eat annihilation with rice. Yes, anything. Rice is absurdly inexpensive and is a great base for any meal — I yet haven't plant a single thing that doesn't taste great on rice. In case you likewise wanna hop aboard the grain-railroad train, here are vii simple side dishes that go keen with rice.

Pesto Shrimp

  • Prep Time:10 mins
  • Cook Time:15 mins
  • Full Time:25 mins
  • Servings:ii
  • Medium

    Ingredients

  • Package shrimp
  • 4 tablespoons homemade or jarred pesto
  • Garlic
  • Lemon
  • Salt and pepper to taste
vegetable, brown rice, risotto, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step ane

    Make clean shrimp. Remove tails. Chop garlic.

  • Step ii

    In a big bowl mix shrimp with pesto sauce. Add salt and pepper. Marinate at least 15 minutes.

  • Step 3

    Add garlic to oiled pan. Cook on medium heat until garlic is fragrant.

  • Step 4

    Add shrimp. Stir on medium heat for 3-five minutes or until shrimp is pink and cooked.

  • Step v

    Drizzle with lemon juice.

Sauteed Shrooms & Spinach

  • Prep Fourth dimension:5 mins
  • Cook Time:5 mins
  • Total Time:10 mins
  • Servings:1
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • 4 push mushrooms
  • 1 scattering spinach
  • 1 clove garlic
  • Salt and pepper to sense of taste
brown rice, spinach, mushroom, risotto, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step 1

    Slice mushrooms and chop garlic.

  • Pace 2

    Add together garlic and mushrooms to an oiled pan. When the mushrooms take gotten a bit soft with a light sear, add the spinach. Cook until spinach is wilted.

  • Step 3

    Salt and pepper to sense of taste.

Quick-Pickled Carrots & Cucumbers

  • Prep Time:5 mins
  • Cook Time:20 mins
  • Total Fourth dimension:25 mins
  • Servings:2
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • 1 large carrot
  • i big cucumber
  • 1/ii cup vinegar
  • 1/two cup water
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • i teaspoon carbohydrate
  • Optional: chili flakes
vegetable, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step 1

    Thinly slice, cube or spiralize the carrot and the cucumber. Doesn't thing what cut technique you utilize as long every bit you go them sparse.

  • Step 2

    Add vinegar and water to pot. Cook on loftier heat. Stir in common salt and sugar. When it begins to bubble remove from estrus.

  • Footstep 3

    Pour vinegar mixture over vegetables until covered. Chill in fridge for at least 15 minutes.

Bell Pepper Medley

  • Prep Time:15 mins
  • Melt Time:x mins
  • Total Fourth dimension:25 mins
  • Servings:two
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • three peppers diverse colors
  • i onion
  • Cayenne pepper
  • Salt to sense of taste
vegetable, pepper, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step 1

    Piece peppers to uniform size (one/4 in). Thinly piece onions.

  • Step 2

    Add peppers and onion to oiled pan. Melt on medium-high heat until onions are caramelized and peppers cooked to a soft-but-crisp state.

  • Pace 3

    Add cayenne, salt and pepper to taste.

Buttered Broccoli

  • Prep Time:5 mins
  • Melt Time:10 mins
  • Total Time:xv mins
  • Servings:2
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • 1 head broccoli
  • 2 tablespoon butter
  • Salt and pepper to taste
vegetable, rice, broccoli
Xara Brianna

  • Step 1

    Launder broccoli and cut into florets.

  • Step ii

    Add water to a pan until it is a 1/4 inch full, so set to a boil. Salt water then add together broccoli florets. Add lid to pan and steam broccoli for 3-8 minutes or desired softness.

  • Step 3

    Drain water from pan. Mix butter, salt and pepper with broccoli until well-incorporated.

Sausage & White potato Hash

  • Prep Time:10 mins
  • Cook Time:25 mins
  • Total Time:35 mins
  • Servings:2
  • Medium

    Ingredients

  • i-2 sausage your choice
  • 1/ii onion
  • 2 small potatoes or ane large spud
  • Butter/oil
  • Common salt and pepper to taste
risotto, vegetable, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step i

    Poke a couple of holes in a spud (with a knife or a fork) then put in the microwave for 5 on high. Remove when cooked. Let to cool.

  • Step 2

    While potato is cooking in microwave throw sausages of choice (chorizo or kielbasa is good) into a pot or pan with boiling water. Simmer sausage for 8-10 minutes until more often than not cooked. Remove from h2o, allow to absurd.

  • Stride three

    Cube irish potato. Slice sausage. Dice onion.

  • Step 4

    Add together enough butter or oil to glaze pan. Add onion, spud and sausage. Cook on medium-loftier until onions are browned, sausage is cooked-through and potatoes have a crispy exterior.

    (Experience costless to experiment and add other herbs or vegetables: celery, parsley, garlic, carrot, cabbage, etc. )

  • Step 5

    Serve on rice.

Soft-Boiled Soy Sauce Egg

  • Prep Time:v mins
  • Melt Time:15 mins
  • Full Time:20 mins
  • Servings:two
  • Easy

    Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
egg, rice
Tessa Domzalski

  • Step 1

    Boil h2o in pot on high heat. Add eggs when h2o is bubbling. Cook for six-8 minutes. Remove and IMMEDIATELY douse eggs into a bowl of ice water. Wait for eggs to cool down, and then peel off the shell.

  • Footstep 2

    In a large bowl combine soy sauce and sugar. Mix until sugar dissolves.

  • Stride 3

    Add peeled eggs to soy sauce mixture. Let soak for at least xxx minutes or up to i day.

  • Step 4

    Eat eggs whole or slice in one-half.

Now you lot have seven side dishes that not only sense of taste neat with rice, but also on tons of other stuff. Try them out and see what works for you and what doesn't!