It was good so I would probably want to try again, but I may just use my rice cooker this time. :)
HTCEV p. 567
HTCE p. 494
HTCE p. 494
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Basic Wild Rice Variation: Wild Rice with Chestnuts
This is one I tried for Thanksgiving and it was a total flop! It was fun to roast the chestnuts and get them out of their shells (something I'd never done before) but the rice didn't cook all the way. Maybe I should have tried the easier way to cook rice, but I was going for fancy. This one called for vegetable stock instead of water and told me to check the rice mid-way through cooking. Now I may be one of those people who never cooks rice on the stove, but I know you're not supposed to lift the lid! So I lifted, the rice wasn't done, wasn't hot enough, I added more broth and boiled it too much so the bottom burt and I had already added the chestnuts so they turned to mush.
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Congratulations on roasting the chestnuts! I have to admit we bought chestnuts one Christmas and then didn't know what to do with them.
ReplyDeletep. 286 of my book even included a picture on how to get the shell off!
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Our picture is also on p.286!!
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