Thanksgiving is one holiday where I like to get people thinking about traditional, native foods. Wild rice is one of them. This recipe pairs wild rice with fresh and dried fruit, spices, nuts and sherry. It is delicious the first day and for a few days after. I try to claim as many leftovers as I can but my mother-in-law always asks to take some home. How can I say no?
You can serve it as is, or you can stuff it into small baked squash such as delicata or acorn or for a family style meal stuff a large cooked squash. You can bake the squash in advance and then stuff them with the hot wild rice. Or you can use a stuffing such Quinoa Stuffing for Squash or Anything Else on page 62 of Vegan Under Pressure.
Pressure Cooked Wild Rice
Ingredients
- 1½ cups wild rice
- 3½ cups water
- 1 cup chopped dried fruit such as tart cherries apricots, raisins, currants or a mixture
- Sherry or apple juice to cover the dried fruit
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 2 small or 1 medium apple peeled, cored, cut into chunks
- 1 medium pear cut into chunks
- ½ cup slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons apple juice
- 1 tablespoon agave or maple syrup or other liquid sweetener
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon cardamom
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Put the water and wild rice in the pressure cooker and lock on the lid. Bring to high heat to get to high pressure and lower the pressure to maintain high pressure for 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the pressure come down naturally. Carefully remove the lid, tilting it away from you.
- When done, drain the rice from the cooking water and put the cooked wild rice into a large bowl.
- While the wild rice is cooking, soak dried fruit in sherry or apple juice, to cover. Drain fruit after 30 minutes and set aside. (Reserve liquid for other uses.)
- Heat a large heavy skillet over medium heat and add the oil. Sauté apples, pears and almonds about 2 minutes. Add the apple juice and continue to cook for a few more minutes. Add 1 table¬spoon syrup, spices, cooked wild rice, drained fruit, salt to taste and cook together another few minutes, stirring. Correct seasonings, adding lots of pepper if you like it. Remove from heat.
- Serve mounded on a plate or stuff into a partially baked squash and bake in the oven at 350F for 30–45 minutes until the squash is thoroughly cooked and the filling is hot.
Laurie says
How do you convert the time for a stove top pressure cooker recipe to an Instant Pot recipe? Thank you for any advice!
Jill Nussinow says
There is no need to adjust the cooking time or liquid amount. It is the same for the stove top and electric cooker. Thank you for asking Laurie.