Wild Blend Rice Cranberry Pilaf

Angie, I am here! I know I am belatedly for the Fiesta Fri anniversary party , but I am here! I cause got brought this amazing wild rice pilaf!

I dearest trying novel stuff. One such affair is the Wild Blend Rice from Lundberg that I of late got.It is essentially a blend of wild rice, long grain chocolate-brown rice, sugariness chocolate-brown rice, whole grain Wehani rice, together with whole grain dark Japonica rice. I cause got e'er been fascinated yesteryear wild rice. I cause got eaten wild rice salad many a fourth dimension together with 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 unlike together with a piffling 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, around greenish squash, carrots together with fresh cranberries on manus together with thence decided to brand a pilaf utilizing everything I had on hand. I must country that it came out actually expert together with was gone inwards no time! I similar my rice cooked until tender, I thence soaked it for a dyad of hours together with then equally to bring down the cooking time. Brown rice takes forever to cook! This in i trial again is a one-pot recipe, piece of cake 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 pocket-size 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 soil ( tin suit equally per private taste)

Method:

Soak the rice blend inwards H2O for 1-2 hours. Drain together with function along aside. ( This footstep is optional. I practice this to bring down the cooking fourth dimension together with to brand the rice to a greater extent than tender).

In a sauté pan or pressure level cooker pan, oestrus butter together with olive oil.Add the minced garlic, sauté for few seconds.

Now add together the chopped onions together with sauté on medium until the onion turns transparent.

Now add together inwards the cashew halves, cranberries; sauté for a minute.

Add inwards the wild blend rice together with the boiling hot water. Add salt, pepper powder,baby carrots, parsley together with convey it to a boil. Reduce the open fire to low, encompass together with laid upwardly for thirty minutes.

While that is cooking, you lot tin cutting the butternut crush together with the greenish crush if you lot cause got non done together with then already.

After thirty mins, add together inwards the butternut crush together with the greenish crush to the pan, stir, encompass together with laid upwardly for around other 20-30 minutes or until the rice reaches the desired score of tenderness.

Note: if using the pressure level cooker/pan to cook, practice non purpose the whistle/weight.Garnish amongst pomegranate seeds, slivered almonds together with cranberries.

Serve hot.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Any form of vegetable tin survive used inwards this pilaf. You tin purpose peas together with carrots or mushrooms; anything really.

If you lot don't cause 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 inwards this recipe.

Tip for salubrious living:

Although chocolate-brown rice is to a greater extent than piece of cake to cook, it is much healthier for the body. Not solely 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 together with is thence expert for diabetics. It has both the outer bran together with germ layers and therefore more vitamins together with 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:

The solely means to cause got a friend is to survive one. Ralph Waldo Emerson