Herbed Mushroom Wild Rice

Submitted by Julesong

"Here's a special treatment of wild rice, laced with herbs and mushrooms..."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1⁄2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms
• water, as needed
• 3⁄4 cup uncooked wild rice
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
• 1 cup shredded carrot
• 3 cups uncooked white rice
• 6 (1 cup) cups chicken broth (6 cups total)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon freshly ground black or tricolor pepper
• 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh parsley

directions

1. In a small bowl place the dried mushrooms and add just enough warm water to cover; let stand 10 minutes until softened.
2. Drain and rinse, squeezing out excess water from mushrooms. Then chop them finely; set aside.
3. Combine wild rice and enough water in saucepan to keep rice well covered. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer uncovered until rice is tender and individual grains have opened about 45-50 minutes. (Add water as needed to keep rice covered.) Drain and keep warm.
4. Heat butter in large deep nonstick skillet or saucepan over medium heat; add onion, rosemary, mushrooms, and carrot and cook, stirring, for 6 minutes until vegetables are crisp-tender.
5. Add white rice, broth, and pepper.
6. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 20 minutes until rice is tender. Drain excess liquid.
7. Mix wild rice, white rice, and parsley in bowl. Serve hot.
8. (An adopted recipe.)

Reviews

[Charishma_Ramchandani]

I made this for lunch this afternoon and it was really good. I used 1/2 cup onions, 2 tbsps. oil instead of butter, a little less than 1/2 tsp. dried rosemary, 1 cup shredded carrots, 1/4 tsp. black pepper, 1 1/2 cups white Basmati rice, 3 3/4 cups Maggi vegetable broth with onions as a substitute for chicken broth- reason being that we're all vegetarians(I prepared this separately at home by dissolving 2 cubes of Maggi veg. broth in 3 3/4 cups of water, bringing it to a boil until the cubes were totally dissolved), 1 cup chopped mushrooms, juice of 1/2 a lemon and 3 tbsps. corriander leaves instead of parsley for garnishing. It made 6 servings for me and all was over in no time(guests appreciated and asked for the recipe!). I must also add that I just visited your homepage and loved your pretty pictures. Thanks for sharing the recipe and glad to meet you on Recipezaar!