ARLINGTON, VA – USA Rice has debuted six new rice recipes designed with younger audiences in mind. The new “Kids Kitchen” recipe series helps children learn how to cook with simple, fun recipes that get them actively involved in the kitchen. For each recipe, kids are responsible for the prep, assembly, and plating, while the adult safely handles steps requiring an oven or stovetop.
Budding chefs learn cooking basics as they create tasty rice dishes they will love. Each recipe involves steps of gathering all the ingredients before starting, measuring each ingredient out, minimal chopping, final presentation steps, and how to clean up. The recipes yield four to six generous servings with an average prep time of sixteen minutes, cook time of twenty-six minutes, and include multiple meal parts using primarily U.S.-grown long grain rice.
“Over the last couple of years, we have seen a return to at-home cooking and that shift has trickled down to even the youngest at-home cooks,” said Cameron Jacobs, USA Rice director of domestic promotion. “If you have a little one excited to help out in the kitchen, these kid-friendly concepts are perfect. The rice recipes teach the fundamentals of cooking and using rice.”
The six new rice dishes include full nutritional information and are available to access through the
consumer recipe database at thinkrice.com.