Wild Rice With Mild Curried Spinach Recipes

CURRIED WHITE & WILD RICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large saucepan, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil.
• Add wild rice and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
• Drain well.
• In a large heavy dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat.
• Add scallions, green pepper and mushrooms and saute, stirring until softened, 4-5 minutes .
• Add parboiled wild rice and long grain rice and toss well to coat with butter.
• Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Bring to a simmer, cover and bake on center shelf of oven until all liquid has been absorbed, about 40-50 minutes .
• Allow to cool 5 minutes before serving.

CURRIED WILD RICE PILAF

Steps:

• Wash the wild rice in water to remove any debris. Place in a 2 qt sauce pan and cover with water, about 4 cups. Add 1/8 teaspoon salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook at a low boil for 30 minutes. Drain and reserve.
• While wild rice is cooking chop vegetables.
• When wild rice has cooked for 30 minutes heat butter and olive oil in a large skillet until hot.
• Saute onion and carrot until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Add bell pepper and celery, saute 3 minutes or until slightly softened.
• Add garlic, curry powder and converted rice, saute until fragrent and rice is well coated with oil.
• Add tomato, broth/water, salt, pepper and partially cooked wild rice.
• Bring to a boil and place in a lightly oiled/sprayed 2 qt casserole dish with cover.
• Cover and bake at 350, stirring half way through, for 50 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. The wild rice will still have a bit of chew.
• Prep time includes parboiling the wild rice.

WILD RICE AND SPINACH GRATIN

Steps:

• preheat oven to 425.
• cook rice according to pkge directions, using beef broth as part of the liquid melt butter in skillet, add mushrooms, saute until browned.
• add spinach, cook until wilted, add cream cheese until melted.
• add rice mixture, stir.
• transfer mixture to 8 small baking dishes, top with swiss cheese.
• bake 40 minutes until browned.