Please help with this recipe

<Mitch@...> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I was going to make this tonight:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mushroom-Wild-Rice-Bake/Detail.aspx

However, because I'm trying to make some room in the pantry, I was
planning to use what I have on hand. I have a container of a rice
mix: "Royal Blend" texmati white, brown, wild, and red rice.

The instruction for making this by itself are 1c rice mix, 1 1/2 c
water, simmer 15 minutes, then let stand 5-10 minutes.

Should I follow the casserole recipe as is, and just use a cup of this
rice mix? Or should I make the rice per the instructions?

There's a pretty big difference between 1 1/2 and 4c of water, that's
why I'm unsure.

Regular rice is 1 part rice, 2 parts water. The recipe seems to make a very
soupy rice which can be quite good if you are expecting that. Then again,
they bake it til 'dry'
(aka french style rice dried out in oven).

Best guess? Reduce water from the recipe amount by 1 cup, shorten cooking
time on stove to what the rice you have calls for, then put in oven to proof
out the rest. Aternative, cook the rice as per your tyes directions and do
it all on the stove top but add 1/2 cup more water than your rice calls for.
(1 cup rice, 2 water).

Cshenk said:

<Mitch@...> wrote in message

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Quoted message said:

I was going to make this tonight:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Mushroom-Wild-Rice-Bake/Detail.aspx

Quoted message said:

However, because I'm trying to make some room in the pantry, I was
planning to use what I have on hand. I have a container of a rice
mix: "Royal Blend" texmati white, brown, wild, and red rice.

Quoted message said:

The instruction for making this by itself are 1c rice mix, 1 1/2 c
water, simmer 15 minutes, then let stand 5-10 minutes.

Quoted message said:

Should I follow the casserole recipe as is, and just use a cup of this
rice mix? Or should I make the rice per the instructions?

Quoted message said:

There's a pretty big difference between 1 1/2 and 4c of water, that's
why I'm unsure.

Regular rice is 1 part rice, 2 parts water. The recipe seems to make a very
soupy rice which can be quite good if you are expecting that. Then again,
they bake it til 'dry'
(aka french style rice dried out in oven).

Best guess? Reduce water from the recipe amount by 1 cup, shorten cooking
time on stove to what the rice you have calls for, then put in oven to proof
out the rest. Aternative, cook the rice as per your tyes directions and do
it all on the stove top but add 1/2 cup more water than your rice calls for.
(1 cup rice, 2 water).

Wild rice takes a lot longer to cook than other rices - that's why the
recipe that you want to try says to cook the wild rice for 30 minutes,
then add the white and cook for another 20, then bake it.

Unless your mix is pre-cooked somehow, if you only cook it for 15
minutes, you will end up with underdone white, brown, and red rice and
sharp painful shards of wet wild rice.

If you really really want to use the mix, I'd pick out the wild rice
and discard it. Then make it according to the directions, and try
baking it according to the recipe anyway. That red rice seems to
dominate such mixes, and not for the better in my opinion.

When I make wild rice, I often make extra and freeze it. Then I've
got it to add to things like this.

Good luck,
Susan B.