Are you always on the hunt for good side dishes to serve with chicken, pork tenderloin, roast beef and other main dishes? This is a delicious side dish. Why make plain white rice when you can opt to make Wild Rice with Snow Peas instead? This rice has mushrooms and water chestnuts mixed in too. If you aren’t into mushrooms, you can always leave them out.
Ingredients needed:
wild rice green onions butter chicken broth snow peas water chestnuts fresh mushrooms vegetable or canola oil salt and pepper
How to make Wild Rice with Snow Peas and Mushrooms:
Rinse the wild rice! Wild rice can have debris or dust on it (even in the package!), so just give it a quick rinse in a fine strainer. Chop your green onions. Chop the white part of the green onion finely. And then chop the green part into 1-inch lengths. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add the white onion and sauté. Add the rice, salt and chicken broth. Cover the saucepan, and simmer to cook the rice. It should take about 35 minutes to become tender. Add additional broth as it cooks, if needed.
Heat oil in a skillet, and then sauté mushrooms, green onions, snow peas and water chestnuts until all are softened. Add the vegetables to the cooked wild rice. Stir to combine, and season with salt and pepper. That’s it!
Wild rice has great texture all on its own. But this rice has an amazing variety of textures and flavors. There is crunch from the water chestnuts! Snow peas and mushrooms are yummy veggie additions too.
If you like cooking with wild rice, you might also like to check out my recipes for Wild Rice Soup, Wild Rice and Cranberry Salad and this Cranberry and Wild Rice Bread.
