Meal-prep tomato baked rice

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This tomato-ginger baked rice can be eaten all on its own. I mean, it’s rice cooked with roasted cherry tomatoes, ginger, and garlic, so it’s fragrant, tangy, just barely light pink. Put an egg on that and call it dinner.

But it’s also a building block: Stow it in the fridge, then use it to jump-start three dinners throughout the week. These meals really just require assembly since all the flavor development happened when you made the rice.

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The rice can carry any number of other meals in soupy, salady, and crispy forms, such as…

Herby and bright yet satisfying from the not-just-plain rice.

Cook the rice further, until it breaks apart and its starches turn broth creamy like porridge.

The fun surprise here is the roasted tomatoes throughout the fried rice — they’re little bits of unexpected sweetness.

By the way, each of these meals use overlapping ingredients so you’re getting three meals with 15 ingredients. Behind the paywall, you’ll get the grocery list and the four recipes.