Herbed Wild Rice With Mushrooms

By Jade

Make weeknight dinners exciting again with this quick, easy, healthy, and incredibly flavorful side dish! You'll never make wild rice from a box again!

Side Dishes
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 20 min
Total Time: 30 min
Ingredients
  • 2 Cups Vegetable Or Chicken Stock
  • 1 1/4 Cups Quick Cook Wild Rice Blend
  • Pinch Of Sea Salt
  • 2 3 Bay Leaves
  • 3 Tbs Butter, Olive Oil For Vegan
  • 3/4 1 Cup Yellow Onion, Diced
  • 3/4 Cup Carrot, Diced (~4 Carrots)
  • 2 Cloves Garlic, Minced
  • 3/4 Tsp Dried Parsley
  • 1/4 Tsp Dried Thyme
  • 9 Button Mushrooms, Sliced (Approximately 2 Cups Sliced
  • Salt And Pepper To Taste
Instructions
  1. In a medium or large saucepan, combine stock, rice, salt, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil and simmer, uncovered, for 10-12 minutes until al dente (more depending on your wild rice blend). Rice will have absorbed most of the liquid, but should still be semi-liquidy.
  2. While rice simmers, melt butter or heat olive oil into a large skillet, add onion and carrot, with a pinch of salt. Saute for approximately 3 minutes and add garlic. Add in dried herbs (rub between hands before adding to release flavors) and mushrooms. Saute for an additional 7 minutes, until mushrooms have cooked through, adding salt to taste.
  3. Add rice (with extra liquid) to vegetable mixture and stir to combine. Continue simmering for approximately 3-5 minutes, until rice is cooked through and remains moist, but not wet.
  4. Add salt and pepper to taste and remove bay leaves. Top with additional freshly chopped parsley if desired.
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