These 27 Rice Bowl Recipes Are Our Weeknight (or Any Night) Saviors

These rice bowl recipes are some of the quickest, easiest routes to beautiful, nourishing meals—you know, the kind we all love to double-tap on The Gram. Though there really are no rules (hello, fridge dump!), we have a few ideas for good places to start. It all begins, of course, with perfectly cooked rice, followed up by an array of toppings of your choice, plus a sauce that’ll really make your grains sing. You can mix and match whatever you have in your fridge and pantry already, or whip up one of these well-conceived (but not overly complicated) recipes. We’re talking about this saucy, picadillo-inspired taco tofu bowl you’ll hardly notice is vegetarian. A chicken and crunchy cucumber riff covered in a spicy, green kick-in-your-pants sauce. Pork meatballs topped with a zippy mojo sauce and crunchy plantain chips. Or Khai Jiao, an ultralight and fluffy Thai omelet that’s served on a pile of (drumroll) rice. Here are 28 rice bowl recipes to inspire all of your dinnertime—or anytime—needs.