Step 1: Let wild rice sit in cold water for at least 15 minutes before cooking. drain.
Step 2: Saute onion and carrot with butter for 5 minutes and then add mushroom. Stir until onion is soft.
Step 3: Add wild rice and barley and stir for a couple of minutes. Pour in vegetable stock. Add salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer on low almost an hour or until stock is soaked in.
Step 4: If after an hour there's still some stock, take the lid off and cook a little more.
Step 5: Roast pine nuts in a non-stick frying pan. Let them cool off.
Step 6: When rice is cooked add parsley, lemon zest, chives,and pine nuts.
Step 7: Fluff rice with a fork before serving.
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