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Substitutions · 112 dishes here use it
Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things. Fresh rice for eating, cold day-old rice for the pan — warm rice in a wok is how you get porridge.
Everything below is judged against that job. A swap that covers it is a swap; one that only looks similar is not.
16 of the 112 dishes here that mention rice list it as optional — 14% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.
Instead · 1
one for one dry
Instead · 2
one for one dry, cooked in salted water
Instead · 3
one for one dry, plan on twice the cooking time
What none of them do
Nothing else makes risotto or a paella. Those depend on a specific starch coming off a specific short grain, and a different grain gives you a good dish with the wrong name.
These dishes list rice as optional. They were written to work without it, so no ratio is needed and nothing has to be bought.
These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes rice a quarter of what is in the pan. Make the swap a decision rather than a repair.
The company rice keeps in this library, counted off required ingredients. A swap that argues with the top two is the wrong swap, whatever a chart says.