French Onion Brown Rice Salad Food

AMAZING BROWN RICE SALAD

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring water to a boil. Stir in rice, cover, and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 45 to 60 minutes, or until done.
• Transfer rice to a serving bowl, and stir in onion, celery, cranberries, salad dressing and sugar. Cover, refrigerate, and serve cold.

MEDITERRANEAN BROWN RICE SALAD

Steps:

• Place Dressing ingredients in a jar and shake well to combine.
• Place Salad ingredients in a big bowl. Drizzle over Dressing, toss well.
• Transfer to serving bowl. If using Halloumi, pile on top.
• Serve!

FRENCH ONION BROWN RICE SALAD

Steps:

• Prepare rice with water in a medium pot.
• In the mean time, combine green beans and peas in a large bowl and allow them to thaw.
• When the rice is done cooking, add French onion soup mix and stir until well combined. Gradually add the rice into the veggies and combine. Serve warm or cold.

BROWN RICE SALAD

Steps:

• Cook brown rice until tender, allow to cool.
• To prepare the dressing put the ingredients into a large jar with a tight fitting lid and shake well. Put aside.
• In a large bowl add the rice and all other salad ingredients.
• Pour over the dressing and mix through. The flavours improve on standing as the rice soaks in the dressing. Enjoy!

BROWN RICE AND CARAMELIZED ONION SALAD

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in fry pan.
• Cook onions slowly on low heat for 20 minutes.
• Add brown sugar and vinegar and cook 10 more minutes.
• Combine rice,onions,lots of salt and pepper,chopped herbs and pine nuts.
• Serve at room temperature.

BROWN RICE WITH ONIONS, GARLIC, AND PECANS

Steps:

• Using chicken broth [or water for Vegetarian], cook the rice according to the package directions.
• About 15 minutes before the rice is ready, melt the butter in a skillet over medium low heat.
• Add the chopped onion and saute', stirring often, until the onion is very soft and begins to color, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in the minced garlic and the pecan meats; saute' over medium heat, stirring, until the nuts and onions are golden and the garlic is tender.
• After done cooking, let the rice stand, covered, for 5 minutes; spoon rice into a bowl, spoon the onions and pecans on top, and fluff with a fork or a chopstick.
• Garnish with the green onions.
• Makes 4 servings.
• This is also good with other types of nut, such as pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts, and also made with a mixture of white and wild rice; sliced mushrooms are also a good addition.

BROWN RICE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Melt butter in microwavable casserole dish.
• Add rice, consomme' beef, and french onion soups.
• Cook in microwave for 8 minutes.
• Stir and cook for another 8 minutes or until tender.

FRENCH ONION, RICE AND VEGETABLE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Combine soup, water and rice in pan, bring to boil, stir once. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes. Stir to mix; pull off heat and let set for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine all canned vegetables in a bowl to mix evenly, set aside.
• Combine yogurt and spices until well mixed, fold into rice until well distributed.
• In a 9 x 13" baking dish layer ½ of the vegetable mixture, then ½ the rice mixture followed by ½ the cheese. Repeat 1st two layers. Evenly intersperse French fried onions for next layer, top with remaining cheese.
• If you made this ahead of time and it is just coming out of the refrigerator, place in a cold oven and bake for 45 min at 475 degrees. Otherwise it might be bubbly and done after 30 minutes or so.
• I served this as a side for a store bought roast chicken that I reheated at the same time until the bird had an internal temp of 165 degrees.
• The next night --
• we had French Onion, Rice and Vegetable Casserole - Revisited --
• ½ pan Leftover French onion, rice and vegetable casserole.
• 1 pkg chicken gravy.
• 2 Tbsp Au Jus.
• ¼ C Greek yogurt.
• ½ Chicken leftovers, diced; after roasting a chicken my household usually has half the
• bird eaten, give or take. If you have less than a quarter of your chicken left you
• may need to supplement with additional cooked chicken either you prepare or purchase pre-prepared.
• 2 Tbsp milk.
• 2 tsp pepper.
• Put leftover French onion, rice and vegetable casserole into oven and heat to 375 degrees.
• Fix chicken gravy as directed on package, add Au Jus and stir until mixed. Next you will incorporate the yogurt, chicken, milk and pepper. Cook/keep warm over a low heat until casserole comes to temperature To serve, place helping of casserole on plate topped with chicken mixture. Enjoy!