Angie, I am here! I know I am belatedly for the Fiesta Fri anniversary party , but I am here! I stimulate got brought this amazing wild rice pilaf!
I beloved trying novel stuff. One such matter is the Wild Blend Rice from Lundberg that I lately got.It is essentially a blend of wild rice, long grain brownish rice, sweetness brownish rice, whole grain Wehani rice, as well as whole grain dark Japonica rice. I stimulate got ever been fascinated past times wild rice. I stimulate got eaten wild rice salad many a fourth dimension as well as enjoyed it. Brown rice I know is healthy, but I cannot switch it for my regular parboiled or Matta rice. This rice blend was perfect for those times when I wanted something dissimilar as well as a footling to a greater extent than exotic.
Being that it is mutual coldness outside, I similar to swallow warm/hot food. I thence didn't want to brand a salad. I likewise had butternut squash, unopen to dark-green squash, carrots as well as fresh cranberries on mitt as well as thence decided to brand a pilaf utilizing everything I had on hand. I must tell that it came out actually practiced as well as was gone inward no time! I similar my rice cooked until tender, I thence soaked it for a yoke of hours so equally to bring down the cooking time. Brown rice takes forever to cook! This over again is a one-pot recipe, slow to make.
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
Wild blend rice: two cups
Butternut squash: two cups, diced medium.
Green squash( zucchini): 1 cup, diced.
Baby carrots: 1 cup
Clarified butter : 1 tbsp
Olive oil: 1 tbsp
Onion: 1 medium, diced small
Garlic: 3-4 modest cloves, minced
Boiling hot water: five cups ( you lot tin purpose vegetable or chicken broth if you lot wish)
Fresh Cranberries: 1/2 cup, chopped
Cashew halves: 1 tbsp( optional)
Slivered almonds: 1 tbsp( optional)
Pomegranate seeds: two tbsp( optional)
Parsley( fresh) : 1 tbsp, chopped
Salt : to taste
Black pepper: 1 tsp,freshly solid soil ( tin adapt equally per private taste)
Method:
Soak the rice blend inward H2O for 1-2 hours. Drain as well as proceed aside. ( This pace is optional. I do this to bring down the cooking fourth dimension as well as to brand the rice to a greater extent than tender).
In a sauté pan or describe per unit of measurement area cooker pan, oestrus butter as well as olive oil.Add the minced garlic, sauté for few seconds.
Now add together the chopped onions as well as sauté on medium until the onion turns transparent.
Now add together inward the cashew halves, cranberries; sauté for a minute.
Add inward the wild blend rice as well as the boiling hot water. Add salt, pepper powder,baby carrots, parsley as well as convey it to a boil. Reduce the flaming to low, comprehend as well as ready for thirty minutes.
While that is cooking, you lot tin cutting the butternut crush as well as the dark-green crush if you lot stimulate got non done so already.
After thirty mins, add together inward the butternut crush as well as the dark-green crush to the pan, stir, comprehend as well as ready for unopen to other 20-30 minutes or until the rice reaches the desired degree of tenderness.
Note: if using the describe per unit of measurement area cooker/pan to cook, do non purpose the whistle/weight.Garnish alongside pomegranate seeds, slivered almonds as well as cranberries.
Serve hot.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Any sort of vegetable tin endure used inward this pilaf. You tin purpose peas as well as carrots or mushrooms; anything really.
If you lot don't stimulate got fresh cranberries, you lot tin used dried ones.
If you lot are allergic to nuts, you lot tin skip it. If not, you lot tin fifty-fifty purpose walnuts or pecans inward this recipe.
Tip for well for you lot living:
Although brownish rice is to a greater extent than deadening to cook, it is much healthier for the body. Not alone is it less processed, it has a higher dietary fiber content when compared to other kinds of rice. It likewise has a lower glycemic index as well as is thence practiced for diabetics. It has both the outer bran as well as germ layers and therefore more vitamins as well as other nutrients.
References:
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/eating-brown-rice-day-good-you-10049.html
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=128
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/cereal/brown-rice.html
Food for thought:
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