Baked Rice For A Crowd

Submitted by TGirl

"Posting in response to a request for a yummy side dish that will feed a crowd. This rice dish will serve 10-12 people."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 4 cups chicken broth or 4 cups vegetable stock, divided
• 1 1⁄2 cups long grain rice, uncooked
• 2 cups onions, chopped
• 2 cups celery, chopped
• 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
• 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 1⁄2 - 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper

directions

1. In large pot, bring rice and 3 and 1/2 cups of broth to a boil, then lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes or until tender.
2. Meanwhile, melt butter in skillet and saute onions and celery until softened, then add remaining broth and all other remaining ingedients.
3. Combine rice with sauteed vegetables, pour into a greased 13 x 9 baking dish, and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
4. NOTE: use vegetable stock and margarine instead of chicken broth and butter to make this a vegetarian dish.

Reviews

[Barnhart O.]

Thank you for suggestion to use vegetable broth & margarine to make this vegetarian. We eat meat, but have friends that are vegan. Your suggestion helped me make their family happy as well as ours!

 

[Kovie]

We did enjoy this recipe but the 2nd time I made a few changes which we felt made it even better. Since my family isnt fond of celery I only used 1 cup. I then added a package of frozen green peas for color and taste and also 2 beaten eggs which seemed to make it more moist. I took it to a church supper and none was left to take home!

 

[Jadelabyrinth]

This rice was pretty easy to make. I made this for OAMC. Only change I made was leaving out the mushrooms. It's like stuffing, but it's rice! I think that there is too much poultry seasoning and parsley in this. They totally overwhelm the other flavors. With that said, I would make this again, because it makes a great side dish, I would just use a lot less parsley, maybe 1 tablespoon or even less, and only 1 teaspoon of poultry seasoning. Thanks for the recipe!