American Rice Recipes

American cooking is a melting pot of comfort food — from slow-smoked barbecue to skillet classics, big on bold, crowd-pleasing flavour. When American cooks work with rice, they reach for butter, smoked paprika, brown sugar, mustard, hot sauce and good stock, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, steaming and sautéing.

The everyday grain for half the planet — a neutral base that soaks up the flavours around it, from pilafs to fried rice. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, celery, green bell pepper, onion, cajun seasoning and chicken stock. The dishes here span american classics ready in as little as 35 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Dirty Rice is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 5,900 ratings.