American
Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole
Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 6 cups broccoli florets
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 2 cups sharp cheddar
- 1.5 cups whole milk
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 375F and steam the broccoli until just crisp-tender, about 4 minutes.
- Melt the butter in a pot and soften the onion and garlic, then stir in the flour and cook 1 minute.
- Whisk in the milk and simmer until thickened, then stir in most of the cheddar until smooth.
- Fold in the cooked rice and broccoli and season with salt and pepper.
- Spread in a baking dish and top with the remaining cheddar and the breadcrumbs.
- Bake until bubbling and golden, about 25 minutes.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Vegetables, Grains, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Broccoli Cheddar Rice Casserole takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on broccoli, rice, and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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