How to make rice dishes more creamy?

Looking to make my Spanish rice and Rice Pilaf dishes more creamy...I've already put a significant amount of olive oil in, but did not use vegetable stock. I don't want it to be more watery or runny, but more thick and creamy, instead...

Any ideas?

I like to use non-fat sour and/or lowfat or fat free plain yogurt. Healthy and tastes good!

Creamier, softer rice requires a little more water. The additional water means it cooks longer before it absorbs it all..so softer rice.

This is advice from my rice cooker recipes.

I am a former chef rom Canada and the best way is to use short grain rice and make it similar to Italian risotto ( the Aborio rice that the one said), but the short grain rice is slightly starchier and tends to cook with a most creamy texture.

For a risotto like taste and creaminess, just start by cooking a few onions in oil and then add you rice, and then slowly add your liquid, a 1/2 cup at a time, and stirring it until it has almost disappeared.

Once it has all been cooked in you can add vegetables, mushrooms, if you a lacto-ovo and do not use and dairy, soya cheese is fine, and vegetable base margarine is fine to.

You can use vegetable stock, tomato juice, fruit juices and plain water with a veggie cube in it, I buy ones from an Italian store made with no meat but porcini mushroom flavour, even a bit of soya sauce.

I also would suggest short grain rice and, something I just learned from Answers (I had an issue with sticky fried rice), make your recipe with the rice right after you boil it. Don't let it cool down. You might also cook the rice a bit longer?

Use aborio rice it will make a nice creamy rice. It is the almost constant stirring as you add the stock that makes it go creamy. If you don't add stock the rice will remain hard and fry.

Use cashew cream. It is delicious and adds beneficial protein, fats, and minerals.

Place two cups of raw, organic cashews in a good blender. Add cold water to just below the level of the cashews. Blend until creamy, adding more water to continue blending if necessary. For milk, continue adding water to fill the carafe while blending. Refrigerate.

try some cornstarch, it is used in many creamy dishes...1 teaspoon = 4 teaspoons of flour.. be sure to put it in a cup and dissolve it before you put it in your dish.. if you don't you'll get ugly lumps!!!