Rice

Lemon rice with vongole and dill oil

Lemon rice is decidedly Greek. Here it is served with vongole to celebrate Mediterranean flavours.

Best fried rice recipes - Fried rice with crab, egg and cucumber

Best fried rice recipes for all occasions

A comfort food that makes the most of leftover ingredients; or a special, sophisticated dish in its own right. A fried rice recipe can do it all.

Pork belly with mirin glaze, ginger rice and pickled shiitake mushrooms

Mirin-glazed pork belly, ginger rice and pickled shiitake mushrooms

Pork belly gets a Japanese-inspired makeover with a sweet mirin glaze.

Onigiri (Japanese rice balls) with nori and brushed with miso glaze

Yakitori Yurippi’s onigiri

Master one of Japan's most famous street food snacks - Japanese rice balls.

Poke, rice bowls and more

The very definition of a well-rounded meal.

Dolmades wrapped in a silverbeet leaf served on a white platter and drixxled with olive oil. Tzatziki served on the side for dipping.

Hellenika’s silverbeet and veal dolmades with tzatziki

While a little fiddly, these dolmades are well worth the effort.

Rice pudding, topped with orange segments and crushed sesame brittle, in a grey bowl, with a grey linen napkin to the left.

Very nice rice puddings

Where creamed rice is the main attraction, and warm seasonal fruit the able sidekick.

Beef sausage curry with coconut rice

Some of the most memorable dishes are whipped up out of nothing, using whatever's in the cupboard and a bit of invention. The idea of a sausage curry was surely born in such circumstances. But that doesn't mean it can't be spruced up into something special.