Crock Pot Wild Rice with Cranberries and Apricots
Created by Kchurchill5 on January 24, 2012
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 4-5h
- Recipe #4307
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups wild rice (the real stuff, not a boxed blend)
- 1 cup cremini mushrooms, sliced, not too thin
- 4 scallions, diced (white and green parts)
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup dried apricots, diced
- 2 (15 ounce) cans vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup walnuts or almonds (if you want you can toast them, but it isn't necessary)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
How to Make
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Step 1: Crock Pot ... Add the rice, mushrooms, scallions, broth, butter, salt and pepper to the crock pot and mix well. Cover and cook on low, 4-5 hours until the rice is tender. Remember, all crock pots are different, and some cook hotter than others. So, just give it a look after 3 1/2 to 4 hours. The size of your crock pot can also alter cooking times.
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Step 2: Fruit ... Once the rice is done, add in the cranberries, apricots and nuts and mix well. Cook another 10-15 minutes and it's done. If you want to toast the nuts ... just add them to a dry saute pan on medium heat for 3-4 minutes until you begin to smell them and they start to get lightly brown. Remove to cool.
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Step 3: Serve ... ENJOY! It is a great side dish to so many dishes.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (158.8 g)
- Calories 552.6
- Total Fat - 11 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.4 g
- Cholesterol - 15.4 mg
- Sodium - 276.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 94.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 7 g
- Sugars - 8.5 g
- Protein - 21.4 g
- Calcium - 47.5 mg
- Iron - 4.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.8 mg