{"id":25833,"date":"2025-11-28T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=25833"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:00:31","slug":"create-unique-vegan-dishes-by-rolling-or-molding-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/28\/create-unique-vegan-dishes-by-rolling-or-molding-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Unique Vegan Dishes By Rolling or Molding Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/java-rice-from-www.dencios.com_.ph_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/java-rice-from-www.dencios.com_.ph_-300x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/java-rice-from-www.dencios.com_.ph_-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/java-rice-from-www.dencios.com_.ph_.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Chef Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD<\/p>\n<p>To mold or shape rice for an elegant or fun presentation, select short-grained rice. Pack cooked rice into an oiled mold, oven-proof cookie cutters, muffin tins, or individual baking cups. Place the mold in an oven-safe dish with 2 inches of water, open-side up. Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until set. Allow to cool and unmold.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to create rice balls, to use as hot entr\u00e9e or cold snack, cook a batch of short-grained, sticky\/glutinous, or sushi rice, and allow to cool. Select one of the blends listed here, and mix with rice. Roll and pat larger balls for an entr\u00e9e, smaller balls for a snack. To heat rice balls, wrap in plastic wrap and microwave for several minutes on medium heat, or place in a steamer and heat for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savory:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Green bell pepper, chopped tomatoes, chopped parsley, and chopped walnuts<\/p>\n<p>Chopped parsley, breadcrumbs, and lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>Chopped green bell peppers, onions, celery, pimentos, mushrooms, cayenne, and paprika<\/p>\n<p>Cooked wild rice, minced garlic, saut\u00e9ed onions and mushrooms, and dry sherry<\/p>\n<p>Red bell peppers, soyrizo, paprika, oregano, and shallots<\/p>\n<p>Scallions, water chestnuts or jicama, cilantro, and soy sauce<\/p>\n<p>Chopped fresh parsley, minced garlic, curry powder, and olive oil<\/p>\n<p>Forest blend mushrooms and sherry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pineapple and organic brown sugar or date sugar<\/p>\n<p>Roasted chestnuts or chestnut pur\u00e9e, cinnamon, and ginger<\/p>\n<p>Minced dried apricots, raisins, and almonds<\/p>\n<p>Shredded coconut, organic brown sugar, nutmeg, and cloves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chef Nancy Berkoff, RD, EdD To mold or shape rice for an elegant or fun presentation, select short-grained rice. Pack cooked rice into an oiled mold, oven-proof cookie cutters, muffin tins, or individual baking cups. Place the mold in an oven-safe dish with 2 inches of water, open-side up. Bake in a hot oven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25835,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25833\/revisions\/25835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}