ricerice /raɪs/ ●●● S3 noun [uncountable] 
a tasty sauce served with rice or pasta a plate of brown rice Serve with plain boiled rice. a few grains of rice2the plant that produces rice: Rice is the main crop grown in the area. rice fields
WORD ORIGINrice
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French ris, from Greek oryza, oryzonEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- long-grain rice
- Add rice to the pan and also fish sauce, lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the rice to the pan and cook until it becomes opaque.
- Analysis Ask the students to consider the following questions: What did the rice do?
- In some homes, women were even exchanging their wedding jewelry for rice.
- Stir the rice into the tomato mixture, adding the chilli sauce.
- The rice cooker puffs away many nights, with jasmine rice scenting the air.
- When lightly set all over, spoon the rice into a serving dish and garnish with the pepper, cabbage and kale.
- Wild rice, more than corn, brown rice, or oats, evokes a mood and a feeling.
WORD SETS
alfalfa, nounarable, adjectivebarley, nounbran, nouncacao, nouncanker, nouncash crop, nouncassava, nouncereal, nouncocoa, nouncorn, nouncrop, nouncrop-dusting, nouncrop rotation, nouncrop-spraying, nouncultivate, verbcultivated, adjectivecultivation, nouncultivator, noundrill, noundrill, verbear, nounfertilize, verbfertilizer, nounfield corn, noungerminate, verbglean, verbgrain, noungranary, noungrower, nounharvest, nounharvest, verbharvester, nounhay, nounhayloft, nounhaystack, nounhorticulture, nounkernel, nounlift, verbmaize, nounmalt, nounmarket garden, nounmillet, nounoats, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveplant, verbplantation, nounpotato, nounproduce, nounpropagate, verbprune, verbreap, verbrice, nounrice paddy, nounripe, adjectiveroot crop, nounrotate, verbrye, nounryegrass, nounscion, nounseason, nounseed, verbseedbed, nounsheaf, nounsisal, nounsorghum, nounsow, verbsprout, nounstraw, nounstubble, nounsugar beet, nountaro, nountill, verbtillage, noununripe, adjectivevegetable, nounvineyard, nounviticulture, nounwheat, nounwindfall, nounwinnow, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a plate of brown rice Serve with plain boiled rice. a few grains of riceCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a plate of brown rice Serve with plain boiled rice. a few grains of rice· Cook the pasta for about 8 minutes.
· In January farmers prepare the ground for the potato crop.
· In summer the rice fields were lush and green.
· The road was surrounded by fields of corn.
· There is pressure on the country to reduce its rice imports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Use in oriental-style dishes and sprinkle it over meat before grilling it or use to liven up leftover boiled rice.· Stir until thickened. 4 Drain chicken and serve with sauce and boiled rice.· Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice.· Serve with boiled rice and bowls of the dipping sauce.· And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice, you know you are giving them the healthy option.· Serve hot with boiled rice and a dollop of soured cream on top, if you wish.· Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with boiled rice and warm pitta bread.· Serve on a bed of boiled rice, preferably brown rice.
· Serve with brown rice and a chicory and orange salad.· Wild rice, more than corn, brown rice, or oats, evokes a mood and a feeling.· Add the cooked brown rice, honey, and buttermilk and mix.· Good sources include brown rice, wholewheat, bran, barley, pulses, carrots and apples.· I opted for stir-fried veggies and brown rice with a glass of white wine of some indeterminate jug sort.· Notice the gluten network holding the golden polenta nuggets and pieces of brown rice and flecks of bran.
· There they had spent fourteen days in solitary confinement, chained in heavy leg irons and fed only on dry rice.· The valley was scrubby here: elephant grass, occasional tall trees, and dry rice paddies.· Those dry rice paddies that we walked through, we could swim through; they all filled up with water.· No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields.
· The group displayed material from Syngenta, the multinational which holds the golden rice patents.· A lack of this vitamin causes blindness throughout rice-eating areas, and this golden-grained rice could solve a pressing problem.· Monsanto's patents are by no means the only barrier to producing golden rice, but they are a major one.· Potrykus's goal is to distribute golden rice free to peasant farmers in all poor countries where rice is grown.· They would cross it with varieties adapted to local conditions, and golden rice could be planted in paddies by 2004.
· Grill the kebabs and place on the hot rice to serve.· Serve hot with boiled rice and a dollop of soured cream on top, if you wish.
· A beautiful dish, it is more or less what it sounds like, sticky rice wrapped in green striated lotus leaves.· My father sliced open a square of sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.
· The refined carbohydrates - white flour, rice and pasta - should be replaced by wholemeal versions.· As a side dish, serve plain white rice.· Season and cool. 3 Mix the fresh herbs into the white rice and mound up on an attractive serving plate.· Rex scooped up a bucket of water and carefully poured some of it into a small white rice bowl.· Just as white bread was once eaten in preference to brown, so white rice was always the standard choice.· Or choose white rice with Cajun or teriyaki sauce.
· I can eat no more of the wild rice which tastes nutty and clings to the roof of my mouth.· He serves the venison with a wild rice compote that contains sun-dried pears, a hard-to-find ingredient.· Below: wild rice and grits are staple elements in Cajun cooking.· We buy our wild rice in broken pieces, which cuts the expense in half.· Oh, that's the wild rice!· Broken pieces of wild rice are much less expensive.· Yes, indeed. Wild rice.· If you are making your own blend, use half wild rice and half brown.
NOUN· From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.· In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.· Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.· Deep-fried glutinous rice cakes Glutinous rice is sweet and its sticky texture makes it easy to mould.
· The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years' worth of rice crop.· It originally meant the pledging of the coming rice crop to local loan sharks.· Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop.· Recent projections suggest a 36 percent decline in this year's rice crop and a 22 percent fall in cotton yield.
· Isn't it true that the men steal from the rice fields?· In winter, rice fields were bare and brown, but there was the anticipation of spring planting just around the corner.· The main area, still submerged, was contoured under water-all for rice fields that were no longer needed.· You could die dawn there with my cousin Trung, in some bloody Delta rice field.· Women gathered at streams to wash clothes and gossip, and they weeded rice fields by hand.· Most rice fields were owned in unequal shares, and the produce was distributed accordingly when the crop was harvested.· Several species are regarded as troublesome weeds in rice fields and irrigation ditches.
· Results All subjects consumed the lactulose drink within five minutes and the rice flour pancake within 15 minutes.
· Long grain rice is the name generally applied to rice of varying quality and sold as an all-purpose grain.
· An excellent rice harvest caused prices to plummet by 40 %.· You should go at rice harvest, she said.· The busiest time of the year is the rice harvest, if the crop is good that is.
· Methane is also given off by rice paddies and ruminant animals, including cattle.· Chambers panicked and buried himself and the machine gun in the stupid rice paddy.· There is what looks to be a white coastline, brilliant greens, the rice paddies etched on the land.· The en-tire company moved across a rice paddy in echelon formation.· Instead of picking up a gun that morning, Charlie went out into the rice paddies and worked.· No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dry rice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields.· In nature Marsilea is found in ponds, ditches, swamps, rice paddies, and other areas with standing water.
· They come wrapped in paper, and not even rice paper which one might eat.· Her skin, stretched over tendons and bones, had the delicacy of rice paper.
· We nearly always had milk pudding, rice pudding, semolina or some other stodge.· Mrs Abigail took a soup-plate from a cupboard and emptied the rice pudding on to it.· And a rice pudding to follow.· Products cover all basic lines including tea and coffee, biscuits, rice pudding and custard.· Voice over Today they had spam or sausage casserole and mash followed by rice pudding and jam.· A simple one-hour massage with oil costs about a tenner but I couldn't resist the wonderfully-named rice pudding massage.· At the end, any dribbles of rice pudding are wiped away with towels.· Those who were fortunate enough to be in the sick wards were given sago, or rice pudding instead.
· Add ginger, shallots, the snow pea leaves, rice wine and salt.· Add 1 tablespoon of broth from the chicken pot, the remaining 1 tablespoon of rice wine and the sesame oil.· Kyoto serves its best rice wines chilled in a traditional wine glass.
VERB· In another pan, warm the sunflower oil. Add the Risotto rice and, stirring continuously, cook for 2-3 minutes.· Stir well. Add rice and then shrimp and stir.· Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the rice, saffron, salt and 2 of the bay leaves.· Gradually stir in the scalding hot milk. Add rice and raisins.· Tabasco can be added to casseroles and rice dishes.
· I see Batti, he is coming back from boiling pots of rice for the kids.· We boil the rice and eat it cold with milk for supper.· In the meantime, boil the rice according to the instructions.· Basmati rice cake Serves 6-8 1 Boil the rice for 3 minutes in water, then drain.
· While the Quorn mixture is cooking, cook the rice according to the instructions.· Our kitchenware consisted of two pots, one for cooking rice and the other for soup or stew.· Place cooked rice sticks in a paper bag and store at room temperature until ready to use.· Pour the Quorn mixture over the cooked rice and serve immediately.· Add the cooked brown rice, honey, and buttermilk and mix.· Leave overnight in the refrigerator for the flavours to develop. Cook the rice according to the instructions.· Our attempts to save fresh water by mixing in seawater when cooking rice or noodles had not had much success.
· The chicks pecked the conspicuous rice grains, which proves that they were eager to eat rice.· We ate red beans and rice on Mondays.· Don't eat rice or pasta today.· He ate rice and a fried egg three times a day, keeping track of the days by counting the meals.· At midday they normally ate rice with a meat-flavoured sauce that might or might not have meat in it.· Only on special occasions, such as holidays, did most people get a chance to eat unadulterated rice.· Since the rains began the village's 5,000 people have been homeless, eating one meal of rice a day.· How I wished I could eat as much rice as I wanted!
· Lay 1 cut-up frying chicken on the rice mixture, and spread remaining soup over chicken.
· This policy caused great hardship in villages where it was not possible to grow enough rice for the needs of the residents.· The residents grew their own rice, set up a small poultry farm, wove baskets and cultivated the orchard.· Tests have shown that desert soil treated with the gel can grow rice and wheat.· When my parents were still alive and I was still a child, everyone in our family worked to grow the rice.· We grew maize, rice, beans and sesame.· Sri Lanka did not grow enough rice to feed its people.· In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice, Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond.
· Monsanto's patents are by no means the only barrier to producing golden rice, but they are a major one.· The school has its own experimental farm, and has produced special strains of rice for the commune.
· Season to taste, serve with rice or noodles.· Remove bay leaf and serve over rice.· Garnish the chicken with toasted almonds. Serve with brown rice.· Garnish with chopped green olives. Serve with brown rice and a tomato and onion salad.· As a side dish, serve plain white rice.· Wild rice is far too expensive to serve, like traditional rice, as an accompaniment to other dishes.· Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve over hot rice.
· Shirley FongTorres says this stew is delicious over steamed rice and is even better the next day.· For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.· Serve this dish with simple accompaniments such as steamed new potatoes, rice or buttered fresh pasta.· That was why a landlord like Uncle Khan made offerings of roast ducks and steamed rice to one of his poorest tenants.
· Cut the remaining butter into slivers and stir into the rice with the grated Parmesan cheese.· Gently stir rice into chicken mixture.· Drain off excess fat. Stir in rice, tomatoes with their liquid, tomato paste, water, cumin and chiles.· Add oregano and rice, stirring to coat rice with oil.· Cook over medium heat, stirring, until rice achieves desired consistency.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a food that consists of small white or brown grains that you boil in water until they become soft enough to eat: - Deep fry fish cakes and warm for 5 mins before serving with tomato sauce and lightly-boiled leeks and celery.
- From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.
- I bet he had the fish cakes.
- In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.
- Lunch Rice cakes, low-fat cheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.
- My husband and the minister wives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake.
- She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.
- Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
a tasty sauce served with rice or pasta a plate of brown rice Serve with plain boiled rice. a few grains of rice2the plant that produces rice: Rice is the main crop grown in the area. rice fields