Natural Foods Guides
If you’re looking for healthy brown rice recipes (that happen to be vegan and most are also gluten-free), have fun exploring these easy, tasty choices. For information on brown rice nutrition and how to cook brown rice, visit our Brown Rice: Cooking Tips and Varieties page; and for even more on the nutritional benefits of brown rice, go to Top 10 Health Benefits of Brown Rice. At left, Thai Pineapple Stir-Fried Rice from Vegan Express; photo by Susan Voisin.
Hearty Main Dishes:
- Valencian Rice and Red Beans
- Gingery Rice with Sweet Potatoes and Peas
- Paella Vegetariana
- Jambalaya
- Baked Rice with Cheese and Green Chiles
- Bok Choy, Edamame, Cashew, and Orange Rice
- Hoppin’ John (Black-Eyed Peas and Rice)
- Slow-Cooker Bell Peppers Stiffed with Salsa, Rice and Beans
- Down and Dirty Rice
- Caribbean Pigeon Peas and Rice
Pilafs and Other Side Dishes:
- Cauliflower Rice Pilaf
- Wild Rice Pilaf with Spinach and Almonds
- Wild Rice Pilaf with Apples and Pecans
- Basmati and Wild Rice Pilaf with Cashews
- Rice and Vermicelli Pilaf
- Fragrant Rice and Cashew Pilaf
- Nutty Wild Rice with Mushrooms
- Saffron-Sesame Rice with Pine Nuts
- Rice and Peas
- Gingered Coconut Rice
- Simple Spinach Rice
- Creole Orange Rice
- Mexican Rice
- Chinese-Style Vegetable Fried Rice
- Thai Pineapple Stir-Fried Rice
- Fruited Basmati Rice
- Saffron Fruited Rice
- Mjeddrah (Rice and Lentil Pilaf)
Soups and Stews:
Salads:
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With so many choices in cooking oil, its hard to know if you’re using the right thing. Most people are unaware of the dangers that come from conventional and over-processed vegetable oil. Even good olive oil isn’t suitable for all cooking purposes – especially high heat cooking. Chosen Foods avocado oil is the perfect, healthy, all-purpose cooking oil, but is especially suited for higher temperatures. Read More→
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Nopal cactus is traditionally part of Latin American cooking. Whole nopal cactus pads can be found in most Mexican grocery stores and is prepared a variety of ways. In Mexico, the whole cactus pad has long been used as a healing food, treating ailments ranging from whopping cough, asthma, to topical skin infections, burns, and more. Read More→
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Chia is taking the health world by storm, and for good reason. Packed full of nutrients, versatile, easy to use, shelf stable and almost flavorless, chia should be in your diet too. Read More→
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Pairing tea with food is an art that’s parallel to wine pairing. If you’d like to learn more about this art that’s both ancient and modern, read on for this informative Q & A with Cynthia Gold, an expert tea sommelier and co-author of Culinary Tea: More Than 150 Recipes Steeped in Tradition from Around the World (Running Press, 2010). Read More→
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Salt comes in all colors, shapes and sizes; as well as pure white, salt may be pink, grey, black or green. Salt truly is a rainbow-hued rock. Here’s a guide to many of the common salts available. Excerpted and adapted from The Salt Book by Fritz Gubler and David Glynn, reprinted with permission of Arbon Publishing. Read More→
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Sea vegetables are getting more attention now that sushi is so popular. For thousands of years, cooks on every continent have made flavorful meals from sea vegetables—soup, stews, garnishes, condiments, and even desserts. Sea vegetables are rich in minerals and vitamins and low in calories. You may also find that eating sea vegetables satisfies your need for salt. (Rinse sea vegetables before cooking them to reduce their sodium content.) Photo from Ocean Harvest Sea Vegetables. Read More→
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Vinegar, from the French words vin (“wine”) and aigre (“sour”), has been made since ancient times by fermenting various liquids. There are numerous types of vinegar, from the cheap, harsh white distilled vinegar to precious varieties, such as well-aged balsamic vinegar that can cost up to one hundred dollars a bottle. This section will give a brief overview of just a handful of vinegars—those most commonly found in natural-food stores or those that are common to ethnic cuisines popular in the wholefoods realm. Read More→
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