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Grains, flours & pasta

Cooked rice

Also called boiled rice

Cooked rice is rice. Cooks treat it as a cereal grain.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Rice
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe
Top country
Indonesia
Cooked rice, cooked

Photo: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use cooked rice

Preparing it

Rice is often rinsed and soaked before cooking. Soak unpolished brown rice longer than milled white rice.

Cooking with it

The draining method suits basmati but not japonica, which becomes sticky when cooked. For undrained boiled rice, bring it to a rolling boil, simmer covered, then let residual heat steam it. Rice absorbs water and expands during cooking.

Around the world

Where cooked rice is cooked

20 dishes in the catalogue use cooked rice. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list cooked rice among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with cooked rice

17 of the 20 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Gado-gado

    Indonesia

  • Fried rice

    China

  • 3-in-1

    Ireland

  • Pyŏngyang onban

    North Korea

  • Spam musubi

  • Nasi langgi

    Indonesia

  • Nasi kebuli

    Indonesia

  • Rice lengko

    Indonesia

  • Nasi tempong

    Indonesia

  • Pelleng

    Indonesia

  • Arem-Arem

    Indonesia

  • Kerupuk puli

    Indonesia

  • Nasi kuning

    Indonesia

  • Tumpeng

    Indonesia

  • Candlenut soup

    Indonesia

  • Lontong

    Indonesia

  • Nasi ulam

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include cooked rice.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: cooked rice in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
rice
A kind of
rice

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What cooked rice is called

Names in 63 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    arroz cocido

  • French

    Gohan

  • Italian

    riso in bianco

  • German

    Kochreis · Reis

  • Dutch

    gekookte rijst

  • Russian

    пропаренный рис

  • Arabic

    أرز على البخار

  • Persian

    چلو

  • Hebrew

    אורז מבושל

  • Hindi

    पक्का हुआ चावल

  • Bangla

    ভাত · অন্ন

  • Chinese

    米飯 · 米饭 · 饭 · 白饭

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  • Assamese

    ভাত

  • bdr

    Buas datay

  • Bhojpuri

    भात

  • Bikol

    Maluto

  • Cantonese

    米飯

  • Catalan

    arròs cuit

  • cdo

    Buông

  • Central Dusun

    Takano

  • Central Kurdish

    چڵاو

  • Czech

    vařená rýže · uvařená rýže

  • Danish

    kogt ris

  • Esperanto

    kuirita rizo

  • Finnish

    keitetty riisi

  • Gan Chinese

    米飯

  • Gan Chinese (Simplified)

    米饭

  • Gan Chinese (Traditional)

    米飯

  • Hakka Chinese

    Fan

  • Iban

    asi

  • Indonesian

    nasi

  • Japanese

    米飯 · ごはん · めし · 炊いた米

  • Javanese

    sekul · sega

  • Kashmiri

    بتہٕ

  • kge

    Okan

  • Korean

    쌀밥 · 입쌀밥 · 이밥

  • Literary Chinese

    米飯

  • Macedonian

    обарен ориз

  • Madurese

    nasè'

  • Malay

    Nasi

  • Malay (Arabic)

    ناسي

  • Malayalam

    ചോറ്

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Pn̄g · Puīnn

  • Minangkabau

    Nasi

  • Nepali

    भात

  • Nias

    fakhe

  • Odia

    ଭାତ

  • Santali

    ᱫᱟᱠᱟ · ᱢᱟ.ᱰᱤ · ᱤᱥᱤᱱ ᱫᱟᱠᱟ

  • Shan

    ၶဝ်ႈ · ၶဝ်ႈႁုင်

  • Simplified Chinese

    米饭 · 饭 · 白饭

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    米饭 · 饭 · 白饭

  • Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)

    米饭

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    米饭

  • Sinhala

    බත් සෑදීම

  • Slovenian

    kuhan riž

  • Sundanese

    sangu

  • Swahili

    Wali

  • szy

    liulu'

  • Taroko

    Ido

  • tay

    mami'

  • Telugu

    అన్నం

  • Thai

    ข้าวสวย

  • Tibetan

    འབྲས་

  • Traditional Chinese

    米飯 · 白飯

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    米飯

  • Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)

    米飯

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    米飯

  • Ukrainian

    пропарений рис

  • Uyghur

    پىشۇرۇلغان گۈرۈچ

  • Uzbek

    Chelou (guruch)

  • Vietnamese

    cơm

  • wlx

    Mui dugirihi

  • Wu Chinese

    米饭

  • Wu Chinese (Simplified)

    米饭

  • Zhuang

    Haeux (gijgwn)

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q523224

Photos

Photo: Ocdp · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons