Friday, October 21, 2011

Seasoned Long Grain and Wild Rice Mix


Since we've been eating a lot of fish lately we've also been eating a lot of potatoes. Because what side goes best with fish? I started getting sick of potatoes though and tried to think of a rice dish that would taste good with fish. I knew wild rice was often paired with it, so a new mix was born.

Seasoned Long Grain and Wild Rice Mix (single use)

2/3 cup uncooked long grain white rice
1/3 cup uncooked wild rice
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder


What else you'll need

2 cups water
2 tablespoons butter or oil

Combine mix, water and butter/oil in a saucepan or rice cooker and simmer until rice is fully cooked. I used a rice cooker because I didn't want to burn it. If you cook it in a saucepan you have to check it and stir it and I don't have that kind of attention span when I'm trying to cook other things.



I served it with the fried fish mix from the previous post.


It paired very nicely with the fish and was a nice change from potatoes!

2 comments:

  1. Can anyone tell me what purpose the nutritional yeast plays in the recipes calling for it?

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  2. It adds unami, which enhances any savory flavor. It works like MSG but in a more natural way.

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