Best Simple Rice

Congri is a foundational Cuban rice dish cooked alongside black beans, notable for its dark color and savory profile, commonly served as a staple side dish alongside roasted pork.

Lentil kitchari is a South Asian one-pot dish of rice and lentils cooked together with spices, used for over two thousand years in Ayurvedic medicine as an easily digestible cleansing food.

Kateh is a Northern Iranian rice dish from Gilan province, cooked by full absorption until a soft crust forms, simpler in technique than the classic Persian chelow method.

Turkish chickpea and rice stew slow-cooked with lamb or beef broth, a traditional Anatolian comfort dish whose name means 'chickpea food' in Turkish.