Rice Cooker Pilaf With Brown Rice, Lentils, and Wild Rice
This is a quick and easy pilaf with my favorite spice--cardamom! If you don't have cardamom on hand, you can omit it--the pilaf is still delicious without it. I improvised it one evening when I was short of canned chicken broth and time. I like the recipe because it combines two of my favorite rices with lentils. The lentils add protein. The dish is a perfect accompaniment to chicken baked with a generous sprinkling of cardamom.
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READY IN: 50mins
SERVES: 4-6
YIELD: 3 1/2 cups
UNITS: US
INGREDIENTS
Nutrition- 1⁄2
- 1 1⁄8cups brown rice
- 1⁄4cup lentils
- 1⁄8cup wild rice
- 4cups water
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- 1teaspoon ground cardamom
- 3teaspoons chicken bouillon granules
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DIRECTIONS
- Remove the inner pot from the rice cooker.
- Place the rices and lentils in a sieve, rinse under running water.
- Add the onion, the rices, and the lentils to the inner pot. Add the water, the pepper, the cardamom, and the chicken bouillon granules. Stir ingredients.
- Return inner pot to rice cooker and press "cook." If pilaf is not sufficiently done after it switches from "cook" to "warm," re-close the rice cooker and keep on "warm" for another 5-10 minutes. Cooking time should be approximately 45 minutes, your rice cooker may vary.
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