From Parents

You can serve this 15-minute side dish with chicken or beef for dinner or make it a light meatless meal.

Healthy Fried Rice

From Better Homes and Gardens

Red beans, lima beans, and green beans comprise the basil-scented trio featured in this meatless skillet meal.

Italian Three-Bean and Rice Skillet

From Better Homes and Gardens

Take your choice of black, garbanzo, or kidney beans for this vegetarian main dish.

Hearty Rice Skillet

From Family Circle

This quick and easy classic pork dinner can be served with brown rice instead of the traditional white.

Pork Cacciatore

From Fitness

Here's an easy vegetarian dinner that's loaded with fiber. Just saute black beans and tofu, season with hoisin sauce and serve over brown rice.

Tofu With Black Beans & Garlic

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this bean and rice combo as either a main dish or side dish. If you like, stuff the mixture into warm tortillas and serve with salsa.

Savory Red Beans and Rice

From Better Homes and Gardens

Tote this low-fat chicken casserole to a potluck, or serve with green beans or broccoli for a great family dinner.

Baked Curried Chicken and Rice

From Diabetic Living

Brown rice add fiber to this diabetic-friendly pork and beans side-dish recipe. Skip the salt when cooking the rice to keep the sodium low.

Red Beans and Rice

From Parents

Lots of vegetables and brown rice make this a healthy side dish or a light meatless main dish.

Vegetarian Fried Rice

From Midwest Living

Smoked sausage and ham make this a hearty main dish. It's perfect for a potluck--just transfer the mixture to a slow cooker.

Big Irv Favre's Red Beans and Rice

From Better Homes and Gardens

Almost as easy as carryout, this savory slow cooker recipe is a fun way to celebrate the Chinese New Year--or any red-letter day.

Cashew Chicken

From EatingWell

Risotto is hardly effortless fare, what with all that stirring over a hot stove. But instant brown rice and creamy Neufchatel cheese can make a nutty, rich, stand-in version that's sure to be a family favorite. Substitute any vegetables you wish for the asparagus and bell pepper. Make it a Meal: Paired with a salad, this is a perfect vegetarian main course, or serve as a side dish with grilled chicken or steak.

Mock Risotto

From Vegetarian Times

For extra protein in this quick side dish, stir in a can of rinsed, drained black beans just before serving.

Mexican Rice

From Fine Cooking Magazine

I first created this recipe as a destination for leftover broccoli stalks, but its easily adaptable, so feel free to substitute other vegetables you might have in the fridge--asparagus, zucchini, peas, mushrooms, bok choy, bean sprouts, and jicama are all possibilities. I love the nutty taste and chewiness of brown rice, and you just can't argue with its antioxidant power and fiber. My favorite route to brown rice is to order it with Chinese food, but you can certainly cook some up yourself. Either way, bear in mind that the rice has to be well chilled so the starch hardens and makes it fry-able. Use fresh rice and you wind up with a gummy mess.

Five-Treasure Fried Rice

From Better Homes and Gardens

For a quick and filling main-dish recipe, try this saucy combination of brown rice, eggplant, and navy beans.

Saucy Beans and Eggplant

From Better Homes and Gardens

A combination of brown rice and wild rice makes for a nutty tasting stuffing. Or, grill the stuffing packet alongside chicken breasts, pork chops, or salmon steaks.

Cornish Hens with Basil-Wild Rice Stuffing

From Campbell's

This side is so good it steals the show! It features brown rice with white beans, portobellos, artichoke hearts and tomatoes...topped with feta cheese, it's irresistible!

Greek Rice Bake

From Better Homes and Gardens

This Southern dish, traditionally served on New Year's Day, has black-eyed peas, brown rice, carrots, corn, hominy grits, polenta, and sweet peppers. It's no wonder that eating it brings good luck.

Hoppin John with Grits Polenta

From The Food Channel

Eat fresh with this simple delicious Asian market rice salad blend of garden salad greens, aromatic wild and whole grain brown rice seasoned with a splash of tamari, crisp julienne Asian veggies and toasted sesame ginger dressing served in large bowls.

Sesame Ginger Rice Salad Bowls

From Better Homes and Gardens

This tasty side-dish recipe includes pork, rice, and black-eyed peas.

Black-Eyed Peas

From Fine Cooking Magazine

Cooking brown rice by the pasta method is quick and results in tender, separate grains with a nice chewy bite. The golden raising in the dressing give this dish a hint of sweetness.

Brown Rice Salad with Basil & Pistachios

From Better Homes and Gardens

Make brown rice the headliner in this hot cereal that's studded with dried fruit bits.

Breakfast Rice Cereal

From Parents

Brown rice provides some whole grains in your baby's diet with this homemade baby food recipe.

Beans, Collards and Rice Baby Food

From Better Homes and Gardens

Toasting enhances the flavor of nuts, enabling just a small amount to perk up an entire dish. Here toasted almonds supply a pleasant crunch to this lemon-scented pilaf.

Bulgur-Rice Pilaf with Green Beans

From Food & Wine

Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern salad typically made with bulgur (dried and ground or crushed wheat berries that are parboiled). Here, warm brown rice takes bulgur's place.

Nutty Brown-Rice Tabbouleh