Last updated on June 6th, 2018 at 01:59 pm
Get yourself ready for the holidays with this incredible Harvest Rice full of fall flavors. It’s really easy to make, great for any night of the week yet perfect for your holiday spread.
Canadian Thanksgiving is this coming Monday and Christmas is in just 82 days. Where has the summer gone? We’ve even had snow here, and yes enough snow so that it stuck to the ground and we had to shovel. Winter is pretty much in full force here. But that’s Calgary for you. Thank God we have our chinooks.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for some recipes that are worthy our your holiday table. I thought I’d start easy with a side dish, so here’s my recipe for this incredible harvest rice.
I loaded it with mushrooms, peas, dried cranberries and slivered toasted almonds which add a really nice crunch to the rice. For the rice I used a brown rice and wild rice mix which I absolutely love. You should be able to find the mix in your local grocery store, otherwise you can combine it yourself, but I really love the flavor of it, it has a really nice and earthy flavor, nutty and quite a chewy texture.
Of course you could use any kind of rice here, but I thought this would be perfect for Thanksgiving, or really any holiday, even a weeknight side dish. It’s really like a rice pilaf loaded with goodies. I served this along with my maple mustard roasted turkey thighs. It was fantastic!
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Get yourself ready for the holidays with this incredible Harvest Rice full of fall flavors. It's really easy to make, great for any night of the week yet perfect for your holiday spread.
- 8 tbsp butter unsalted
- 1 large onion chopped
- 8 oz mushrooms chopped
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp pepper or to taste
- 1/2 tbsp fresh thyme chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 3/4 cups brown and wild rice mix
- 5 cups chicken broth low sodium or no sodium
- 3/4 cup craisins chopped
- 1 cup peas frozen
- 1 cup almonds slivered and toasted
- 2 tbsp parsley chopped
Melt butter in a large pan. Add the onion and saute for about 2 minutes until the onion softens and becomes translucent. Add the mushrooms, stir and cook until the mushrooms cook down and are soft, about 3 to 5 minutes.
Stir in the salt, pepper and fresh thyme. Stir in the garlic and cook for about 30 seconds.
Pour in the wine, let it come to a boil, and add in the rice. Stir until all the liquid is absorbed.
Pour in the chicken broth, stir, and bring to a boil. Cover the rice, lower the heat to medium-low, and cook for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally until rice is almost cooked.
Add the craisins, peas, half of the almonds and continue to cook (covered) for another 5 or 10 minutes. At this time you can also taste for seasoning and adjust with salt and pepper as necessary.
Garnish with remaining almonds and parsley.
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Wild rice can take quite a long time to cook, but it should absorb all the liquid when it's cooked. If you feel that the rice isn't cooked after the 30 minutes, add more chicken broth if needed and cook for a few more minutes.
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I’m just curious. It sounds good as written but I was wondering how I would make it vegetarian when I need a veggie dish. The hotlink in your recipe took me to red mill brown rice mix which seems to be vegetarian. is that right? And then substitute veggie broth for the chicken broth?
That’s right, though I’m not an expert on vegetarian diet, but yes, you could use veggie broth and it’ll be just as delicious!
I adapted this to the rice cooker (halved everything except the mushrooms to make it fit) and it turned out really well. I definitely plan on making it again. It was very moist and reminded me of stuffing. I really liked the added crunch from the slivered almonds as well.
Ohhhh my yes! This was divine! I showed my husband (from India) this recipe and he thought it sounded dull cuz he prefers flavourful briyani’s and Indian pilau’s. I told him this looked fab but he dismissed it and told me not to make it cuz he wanted something more special for his Thanksgiving rice dish! I made it anyway and he raved about this rice all night!!!
I didn’t have a brown/wild rice mix, so I just used plain white basmati (and lessened the liquid and cook time) but other than that I followed your recipe to a T and wow it was yummy! I made one other very minor change which was to fry the almonds with the onions, rather than toast them–just easier!
I’ll definitely be making this again!! It ticked all the boxes! Thank you! I’m a newer reader to your site and really enjoying it!!
Always great when you prove the husbands wrong. LOL Glad you enjoyed it!
This sounds really yummy except I can’t eat Craisins because they make me ill and I don’t like white wine. I know I can sub more chicken broth for the wine but can I just leave out the Craisins or is there something I can sub? This serves 8 people so I would half it for just mom and I. Otherwise, I can’t wait to try it.
Can you eat raisins? Those would be nice, or dried apricots!
No, I can’t. I can’t eat sweets because when they hit my tongue they make me throw up. I’ll just leave them out. My sister would like this recipe though as she loves Craisins. I’ll pass it on to her. Thanks again for a great recipe even if I can’t eat part of it. I can’t wait to make it minus the Craisins.
Yeah, it should be just fine without them, no worries.
It looks so good! I have never tried brown rice and wild rice mix, hope I will find the mix in the nearest grocery store. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
My pleasure!