Rice Recipes Rich In Nutritious Flavor (NAPSA)—Preparing meals that are budget and family friendly, healthy, fast and delicious is much easier when you start with a nutritious ingredient, such as rice, that can be used in a variety of recipes. Rice absorbs the flavor of other ingredients and certain types of rice are easy to make and cook quickly. To save time, rice can be prepared in advanceandlater used in quick recipes like the onesbelow. Take Minute Rice, for example. Minute Brown Rice was recently named one of the best packaged foods by Women’s Health magazine because it takes only 10 minutes to cook yet it has the same nutritional value as long-cooking brownrice. Brown and white rice are both complex carbohydrates that are trans fat-free, sodium-free and gluten-free, which makes rice healthy for the whole family. Additionally, brown rice is a 100 percent whole grain product, and research has shown that a diet rich in whole grains reducestherisk of heart disease, certain cancers and type 2 diabetes. Here are a variety of quick, easy, healthy and delicious tips the whole family will love: Breakfast Tips Sprinkle cinnamon and brown sugar over hot cooked rice. You can also add dried fruit, milk and nuts to make breakfast even better. Fold cooked white or brown rice into your favorite fruit yogurt. Add granola and fresh fruit. Top with honey. Enhance the nuttiness of brown rice by adding cashews, peanuts or sunflower seeds. Stir Quick-cooking brown rice takes only 10 minutes to cook, but has the same nutritional value as long-cooking brownrice. scramble, add scrambled eggs, cooked sausage, cheese and green onions to hot cooked rice. Salsa makesa great topping. For an easy Waldorf salad, add chopped apples, celery, raisins, pecans and vanilla yogurt to cooked and cooled brownrice. For an easypilaf, add sauted onions, mushrooms and green peppers to rice cooked with chicken broth. Top with toasted pine nuts. Sweet Treats Make a quick raspberry rice pudding by mixing cooled rice, fresh raspberries, honey and vanilla yogurt. Top with lemonzest. For an easy apple cobbler, add sliced apples, cinnamon, brown sugar, chopped nuts and vanilla yogurt to hot cooked white or brownrice. To reheat leftover rice, add two in dried cranberries, cherries or tablespoons of water for each cup of cooked rice and microwave on HIGH about 1 minute per cup or cover and heat in a pan about 5 minutes. Leftover cooked Minute Rice may be stored in a covered container in the refrigerator up to three days. Quick Meals nutritional tips, recipes and recipe blueberries for a nutritious snack. For a delicious farmer’s For more information, including videos, visit www.MinuteRice.com.
