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Rice and Pasta Recipes

This collection of Side Dish Rice and Pasta Recipes includes both classic menu staples and some new and interesting flavor combinations.

Versatile favorites include my Almond Rice Pilaf and Broccoli Cheese Long Grain and Wild Rice.

You will love the combination of flavors in the Orzo Salad with Roasted Red Peppers, Spinach and Feta and Pizza Pasta Salad - both BIG reader favorites that are perfect potluck choices.

 

A skillet filled with Spanish Rice with Ground Beef.

Spanish Rice with Ground Beef

The orzo pasta salad in a white serving bowl with grapes and lemons placed around it.

Orzo, Grape, Feta Salad

An individual serving of Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese being scooped up with a fork from a small white bowl.

Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese

A black bowl filled with wild rice and pecans.

Wild Rice Pilaf with Cranberries and Pecans

A skillet filled with Mexican rice, cilantro and slices of lime.

Restaurant Style Mexican Rice

A person holding a bowl filled with orzo and mushrooms.

Creamy Orzo with Mushrooms and Parmesan

A bowl with shrimp and noodles with chopsticks lying over the top.

Stir Fried Noodles with Shrimp (Easy Mie Goreng)

A close up of a bowl of coleslaw with macaroni and slices of cucumber.

Macaroni Coleslaw

A glass bowl filled layers of bow tie pasta, greens, ham, and vegetables.

Layered Ham and Broccoli Pasta Salad

A bowl of spinach topped with tortellini and broccoli.

Lemony Tortellini Broccoli Salad

A bowl of rice topped with shredded white cheese.

Salsa Rice

A bowl of Orzo salad.

Orzo Salad with Roasted Red Peppers, Spinach, and Feta

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