What is a better alternative than rice?!
Any way good starch substitutions to normal white rice are:
- Wheat including pasta, bread, cereal
- brown rice, basmati rice, wild rice, black rice, sticky rice
- spelt such as in bread, pasta and flour
- quinoa, amaranth, millet, can be cooked like rice, with less cooking time
- oat same as above
- wheat, barley also can be cooked like rice, but need more cooking time
- also sprouted grain /Ezekiel bread if you are looking for gluten free substitute.
Hope this help
Answers: What is the reason you want an alternative to rice? Taste? Allergy? Stomach Filling? more fiber? Health?...
Any way good starch substitutions to normal white rice are:
- Wheat including pasta, bread, cereal
- brown rice, basmati rice, wild rice, black rice, sticky rice
- spelt such as in bread, pasta and flour
- quinoa, amaranth, millet, can be cooked like rice, with less cooking time
- oat same as above
- wheat, barley also can be cooked like rice, but need more cooking time
- also sprouted grain /Ezekiel bread if you are looking for gluten free substitute.
Hope this help
mashed potatoes or noodles
Brown rice is better than white rice. A healthier choice is mashing up boiled cauliflower so it looks like mashed potatos. It's really good and you lose all those extra carbs by skipping potatos!
In my opinion, pasta. THe taste, texture, and appeal is over all better and the nutritional value is simular.
For these reasons I think it is a better alternative to rice.
Better alternative to what? Rice is an essential part of most Asian cuisine, but you can use brown rice instead of white rice.
cassava and other root crops!
I'm a Chinese, therefore, there is no better alternative than rice to me, but if I have no other choice or when I want something else, I want different things in different places... like
pasta
egg noodles
soba
udon
bread
naan
cous cous
fried / baked potatoes
salad
boiled vegetables
congee
oat meals
porridge
pho
pizza
the list is getting long and I'm hungry again!
risotto is very nice
iamthe: Pasta has NO nutritional value. It's all refined wheat starch, which is essentially sugar = insulin overload = health problems.
If you have to have pasta, it should be a whole grain variety.
An alternative to rice as a side dish and in recipes; faro, spelt, and barley cook up nice and could be made into something like a risotto.
Or, as someone else stated, mashed cauliflower. Even a baked potato would be fine so long as it's not overloaded with butter and/or sour cream.
I still prefer rice over all, brown rice especially. It is a wonderful healthy food, and works wonders in the body.
brown rice- more fiber and vitamins
Quinoa- just as cheap, more protein, less calories
If you want to cut carbs, mashed cauliflower- looks like mashed potatoes, but it has more fiber.
Mashed potatoes (if you go really light on the butter and the cream) are also low-calorie, but they aren't low-carb.
If you want to stay authentic when making Asian or Indian dishes, you should stick with rice, and reduce the portions