Seemingly a humble grain, rice is actually the most muscular weapon of mass construction in the kitchen—and it loves to dress up! Nisha Katona is a rice evangelist, and is on a mission to show the enormous breadth of rice dishes that can be created simply and quickly. The exciting, contemporary recipes in this book reinvent rice time and time again, embellishing it with everything from chilli to chocolate, cardamom to Kahlua.
Marrying different cuisines from around the world, the result is this collection of vibrant, exciting dishes. Kick Starts touts a range of blinged-up breakfasts – such as as Creole Breakfast Cinnamon Fritters – while Light Fantastics offers starters, lunches and other munchie busters, including Black & Red Boudoir Salad and Beefed-up Bi Bim Bap. The Main Grain features fantastic world feasts – from the fiery Vietnamese Hell Rice to the more delicate Lebanese Rose Petal Rice, and options for Souped-Up Sides include a Thai Wild Rice Salad or Indonesian Coconut Rice. Have a happy ending with sensational sweet treats and try exciting new inventions like Black Rice Sorbet with Cinnamon & Rice Doughnuts. This is a book of seriously pimped-up rice recipes.