Last weekend, Roger held his fall/winter Crystals’ Light workshop. For more information on the workshop, click on CRYSTALS. I make the snacks and lunches for this weekend long workshop held in Calgary. (If he is invited to present this elsewhere, then the host makes the lunch and snack arrangements.)
One of the favourite “eats” was this wild rice soup. Several people said that they would serve it for Christmas, if I would share the recipe. Here it is.
Wild Rice Soup
8-10 Servings
Wild rice was, for hundreds of years, one of the -main food sources for the Indians of Minnesota. It is a large reed-like grass and grows in three to four feet of water. This grass, with its long sweeping flower cluster on
top, sometimes grows eight to ten feet tall.
1/2 cup wild rice ( I used ¾ of a cup of wild rice)
1 pound bacon (I left out all the bacon and drippings and added 2 tablespoons of virgin olive oil.)
3 tablespoons bacon drippings (Leave out for vegetarian soup)
1 cup finely chopped celery
1 cup finely chopped onion
¾ cup finely chopped red pepper
2 141/2-ounce cans (ready to serve) chicken broth (I used 7 cups of distilled water and a 2 vegetarian broth cubes)
2 white potatoes, cubed
2 103/4-ounce cans cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
Variations:
Add grated carrot, or green onions, or finely chopped leek, or finely chopped mushrooms.
Wash wild rice. Boil rice for 15 minutes and drain; set aside. If you use the bacon, fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon and discard all but 3 tablespoons bacon drippings. Sauté celery, onion and green pepper or whatever veggies that you use either in the drippings, or in olive oil, until onion is transparent. Put in a large kettle and add rice, broth, mushrooms, soup and diced bacon. Cook on low heat for 1 to 3 hours. (I find that 3 hours gives it the best flavour.) Do not add salt.
See the November 2011 Angels’ magazine “The New Wave” at www.angelsandancestors.com
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This soup sounds fabulous. Thanks so much for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteMary