Rice
Oryza, Oryza sativa
Rice is a cereal grain. Cooks use its seeds.
- Plant-based
- Gluten-free
- No listed allergens
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Grains, flours & pasta
- Part used
- Seed
- Family
- Poaceae
- Top country
- Indonesia
- Dishes
- 110 in the catalogue

Photo: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use rice
Cooking with it
Long-grain rice tends to remain intact and fluffy when cooked. Most short-grain rice becomes sticky when cooked; Bomba is an exception.
Around the world
Where rice is cooked
Dishes by continent
Countries whose dishes use it most
- Indonesia 27
- India 5
- United States 4
- Iran 3
- Japan 3
- Nigeria 3
- Türkiye 3
- Armenia 2
- France 2
- Spain 2
- Thailand 2
- Dominica 1
- Egypt 1
- Finland 1
Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list rice among their ingredients.
On the table
Dishes made with rice
Kanji rumbi
Indonesia
Arròs al forn
Spain
Aşure
Banga rice
Nigeria
Capoun
France
Jambalaya
Koshari
Egypt
Sholezard
Iran
Shrimp Creole
United States
Zlyvana kasha
Ukraine
Sarma
Greece
Bibimbap
Kolkata biryani
Pelau
Dominica, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago
Amich
Armenia
Doria
Japan
Gulûl
Khao kha mu
Thailand
Zarda
India
Cabbage casserole
Finland
Fırın sütlaç
Türkiye
Omo tuo
Ghana
Khichri
Nasi langgi
Indonesia
Gimbap
California roll
United States
Banga Rice
Nigeria
Crousty
France
Dewliser
Ghapama
Armenia
Khao man gai
Thailand
Potato biryani
India
Unadon
Japan
Yayla çorbası
Türkiye
Shirin polo
Iran
Nasi lapola
Indonesia
Kalbûnî
Poke
United States
Gamjabap
Curd rice
India
Tah Chin
Iran
Tuwon shinkafa
Nigeria
Zosui
Japan
Spicy porridge
Indonesia
Red beans and rice
United States
Bêran
Indori Poha
India
Kongbap
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include rice.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: rice in detail
- 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 it
- brown rice, cooked rice, ketupat, lontong (parboiled), rice cake, rice flour (ground)
- Varieties
- glutinous rice, jasmine rice
Around the world
What rice is called
Spanish
arroz
French
riz
Italian
riso
Portuguese
arroz
German
Reis
Dutch
rijst
Greek
ρύζι · Όρυζα
Turkish
pirinç · çeltik
Russian
рис
Polish
ryż
Arabic
أرز · أرز (نبات) · رز · الرز
Persian
برنج
Show all 237 languages
Afrikaans
Rys · Oryza sativa
Albanian
orizi
Amharic
ሩዝ
ami
panay
Angika
चॉर
Aragonese
roz
Aramaic
ܪܘܙܐ
Armenian
բրինձ
Aromanian
urizu
Assamese
চাউল
Asturian
arroz
Atikamekw
miromin
Awadhi
धान
azb
دویو
Azerbaijani
düyü
Bakhtiari
برنج
Balinese
baas
Bambara
malo
Bangla
চাল
Banjar
banih
Bashkir
дөгө
Basque
arroz
Batak Toba
Boras
Bavarian
Reis
bdr
Buas
Belarusian
рыс · рысавыя крупы
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
рыс
Betawi
Tepung ketan
Bhojpuri
चाउर
Bikol
paroy
Bosnian
riža
Brazilian Portuguese
arroz
Breton
riz
Bulgarian
ориз
Buriat
тутарга
Burmese
စပါး · ဆန်
Cantonese
稻米
Catalan
arròs
cdo
dêu
Cebuano
Bugas
Central Dusun
wagas
Central Kurdish
برنج
Chamorro
ineksa
Chechen
дуга
Cherokee
ᎪᏃᎮᏅ
Chinese
稻 · 稻米 · 米 · 大米
Chuvash
рис
Cornish
rys · ris
Corsican
risu
Crimean Tatar
pirinç
Crimean Tatar (Latin)
pirinç
Crimean Tatar (Romania)
píríj
Croatian
riža
Czech
rýže
dag
shinkafa · Mochi
Danish
ris
Dinka
lop
Divehi
ހަނޑޫ
dty
धान
Egyptian Arabic
رز
eml
rîs
Esperanto
rizo
Estonian
riis
Faroese
rís
Fiji Hindi
bhaat
Filipino
palay
Finnish
riisi
Fon
Mɔlikún
Friulian
Rîs
Gagauz
pirinç
Galician
arroz
Gan Chinese
禾
gcr
douri
Georgian
ბრინჯი
Gilaki
بج
Guarani
arro
Gujarati
ચોખા
Haitian Creole
diri
Hakka Chinese
vò-é
Hausa
shinkafa · Shinkafa Abinci
Hebrew
אורז
Hindi
चावल
Hungarian
rizs · Oryza sativa
hyw
բրինձ
Icelandic
hrísgrjón
Ido
rizo
Igbo
osikapa
Iloko
bagas
Inari Sami
riisi
Ingush
дуга
Interlingua
ris
Irish
rís
Jamaican Creole English
rais
Japanese
米 · 米穀
Kabardian
прунж
Kannada
ಅಕ್ಕಿ
Kanuri
Rice
Kara-Kalpak
Gúrish
Karachay-Balkar
принч
Kashmiri
تۆمُل
Kashubian
riz
Kazakh
күріш
kbp
mɔʋ
kge
Biyas
Khmer
ស្រូវ
Kinyarwanda
umuceli
Korean
쌀
Kurdish
riz
kus
mui
Kyrgyz
күрүч · Шалы · Гүрүч · Шаалы
Ladino
arroz
Lao
ເຂົ້າຈ້າວ
Latin
oryza
Latvian
rīsi
lbe
ппиринж
Lezghian
дуьгуь
Ligurian
riso · rîzo · rizu · risu
Limburgish
ries
Lingala
lɔ́sɔ
Lingua Franca Nova
ris
Literary Chinese
稻
Lithuanian
ryžis
Lojban
rismi
Lombard
ris
Low German
Ries
Low Saxon
ries
Lower Sorbian
rajs
Luxembourgish
Räis
Macedonian
ориз
Madurese
Bherrâs
Maithili
धान
Malagasy
vary
Malay
beras
Malayalam
അരി · നെല്ല്
Maltese
ross
Manchu
ᠪᡝᠯᡝ
Māori
raihi
Marathi
तांदूळ
Mazanderani
برنج · بینج
Min Nan Chinese
bí · tiū-bí
Minangkabau
bareh
Mingrelian
ორზა
mnw
သြောံ · သ္ၚု
Mongolian
тутарга
Moroccan Arabic
روز
Mossi
Mui
N’Ko
ߡߊ߬ߟߏ
nah
ācintli
Navajo
alóós
Nepali
धान
Newari
जाकि
Northern Sami
risen · risenat
Norwegian Bokmål
ris · Ris
Norwegian Nynorsk
ris
Obolo
Ọrọsi
Occitan
ris
Odia
ଚାଉଳ
Old English
Orysa
Ossetic
пырындз
Ottoman Turkish
برنج
Pampanga
pale
Papiamento
aros
pih
rais
Punjabi
ਚੌਲ · ਚਾਵਲ · ਝੋਨਾ
Quechua
arrus
Romanian
orez
rsk
Рискаша
Rundi
umuceri
Rusyn
Рис
Samogitian
rīžā
Sanskrit
तण्डुलाः · व्रीहि:
Santali
ᱫᱟᱠᱟ
Scots
rice
Serbian
пиринач
Serbian (Cyrillic)
пиринач
Serbian (Latin)
riža
Serbian (Latin)
pirinač
Shan
ၶဝ်ႈသၢၼ် · ၶဝ်ႈ
Shona
mupunga
Sichuan Yi
ꍯ
Silesian
ryż
Simplified Chinese
稻
Simplified Chinese (China)
稻米 · 稻 · 米 · 大米
Sindhi
چانور
Sinhala
වී · බත්
Skolt Sami
riss
Slovak
ryža
Slovenian
riž
Somali
bariis
Southern Sotho
raese
Sranan Tongo
aleysi
Sundanese
béas
Swahili
mpunga
Swedish
ris
Swiss German
Riis · Reis
Swiss High German
Reis
szy
yuku tipus sayun.
Tajik
биринҷ
Tamil
நெல்
Taroko
masu
Tatar
дөге
Tatar (Cyrillic)
дөге
tay
lmyun
Telugu
వరి
Tetum
hare
Thai
ข้าว
Tibetan
འབྲས།
Toki Pona
pan palisa lili
Traditional Chinese
稻米
Tumbuka
mpunga
Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)
روز
Turkmen
bürünç · tüwi · şaly
Tyap
cyia̱ga̱vang
Udmurt
рис
Ukrainian
рис · рис японський · рис індійський · рис (продукт харчування)
Upper Sorbian
rajs
Urdu
چاول
Uyghur
گۈرۈچ
Uzbek
guruch
Venetian
rixo
Vietnamese
gạo · cơm
Volapük
risat
Võro
riis
Walloon
riz
Waray
humay
Wayuu
roo
Welsh
reis
Western Frisian
rys
Western Panjabi
چوݪ · چاول · چول
Wolof
ceeb
Wu Chinese
稻
Yakut
рис
Yiddish
רייז
Yoruba
ìrẹsì
Zaza
rız
Zhuang
haeuxbieg
Zulu
ilayisi
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: Q5090
Photos
Photo: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons










