Help please how do you give rice to your children?

[MiraiH]

I am a new mum - with no cooking skills - but want to improve the diet of my children beyond pasta. How do you serve rice to your children - do you make curries or any recipes that you use would be really helpful?

Simple red lentil daal with mild curry powder. Inexpensive and easy to make and children love it with rice.

As those packet rices have been mentioned a lot, they are GREAT for making fried rice because the rice is cooked just right (for fried rice the rice cannot be overcooked at all or it just becomes a soggy mass). Sainsbury's do a nice jasmine one and also basmati, Aldi also do a white basmati one in a plastic tub that's nice.

Now I don't have children so you might have to adapt this:

Crush a clove of garlic and chop finely.
Crack an egg into a bowl and whisk. Add salt and pepper.
Heat up your pan or wok on a high heat and add a neutral oil like rapeseed or sunflower.
When the oil is hot tip in the egg, it should cook in hot oil almost immediately, start breaking it up with a spoon/spatula.
Add garlic and some veggies like sliced mushrooms, spring onion, carrot matchsticks etc. Keep stirring and frying for a minute or so while they cook.
Next add your packet rice. Break up with spatula/spoon and keep frying and stirring.
Cook all this for a few more minutes to heat the rice through, stirring the whole time.
Finally, add a splash of soy sauce at the end and stir through (possibly not suitable for children? 🤔).

whatever is cheap! Egg fried rice is good and quick. Otherwise risotto, paella, with curry or chilli

Bolognese with rice is underrated

Definitely! Lovely with rice.

Dirty rice is a favourite here. Cook plain rice and cool it (works even better with day old rice from the fridge). In a pan fry off mince, onions, peppers, mushrooms. Season and chuck in mixed herbs then add the rice and mix it all in. We use frozen lamb mince for this.

My family eat a lot of rice - if I run out of time to cook the rice from scratch I use VeeTee microwave pots, the nicest microwave ones I’ve found so far, they don’t have that weird plastic-y twang to them.

We use long grain, basmati or jasmine depending on what main meal we are having. They also do pilau and sticky rice although I haven’t tried them.

We have a variety of stir fries, curries, paella, risotto, chilli dishes with them.

You can also just do rice, peas and plain natural yoghurt.

2nd vote for Veetee pots, I had the basmati ones when I broke my wrist.

Edit: but in the long run a rice cooker/cooking it yourself is probably better/healthier/cheaper.

@FawltyTower get your hard hat on, day old rice on MN is a huge crime