Wild Rice N Bread Dressing Recipes

WILD RICE DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Prepare rice:
• Rinse rice in a sieve under cold water, then cover with cold water by 2 inches in a 4-quart pot. Simmer, covered, until tender, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Drain rice in sieve and cool 10 minutes.
• Prepare other ingredients while rice simmers:
• Toast bread in a large shallow baking pan in middle of oven until dry, about 30 minutes.
• Cook bacon in a large skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until crisp and transfer with a slotted spoon to a large bowl. Cook onions in fat remaining in skillet, stirring, until softened. Add celery and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
• Assemble and bake dressing:
• Add onions and celery to bacon and stir in parsley, bread, rice, and salt and pepper to taste.
• Increase temperature to 375°F.
• Transfer dressing to a buttered 3- to 4-quart baking dish and drizzle chicken broth over dressing. Bake dressing, covered, 20 minutes, then uncover and bake 20 minutes more, or until bread is golden brown and dressing is heated through.

SLOW-COOKER SOURDOUGH AND WILD RICE STUFFING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300°F. Spread bread cubes in single layer in large roasting pan or baking pan. Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly toasted; set aside.
• Place 3 cups broth, the wild rice and mushrooms in 4- or 5-quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on high heat setting 3 hours.
• Add remaining ingredients except 3/4 cup broth to wild rice mixture. Add bread cubes. Pour 3/4 cup broth over bread mixture; toss gently. Cover and cook on low heat setting 4 hours to 4 hours 30 minutes. Note: This recipe was tested in slow cookers with heating elements in the side and bottom of the cooker, not in cookers that stand only on a heated base. For slow cookers with just a heated base, follow the manufacturer's directions for layering ingredients and choosing a temperature.

WILD RICE AND CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• In a 3-quart saucepan, bring 3 cups water to a boil.
• Stir in wild rice and 1 teaspoon salt.
• Return to a boil, cover, and simmer over low heat 50 minutes.
• Drain in a large coarse sieve.
• In a 12-inch skillet over medium heat, melt butter.
• Add celery, onions and garlic; sauté, stirring, for 10 minutes or until softened.
• Add cooked wild rice and stuffing mix or cornbread; heat through, stirring.
• Add broth, parsley and salt and pepper to taste.
• Spread evenly in a 9" x 13" glass baking dish, and cover tightly with aluminum foil.
• (Dressing may be prepared up to 6 hours ahead and refrigerated.) Bake until heated through, about 30 minutes.
• Serve hot.

MINNESOTA WILD RICE DRESSING

Steps:

• Prepare instant long grain and wild rice according to package directions. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Place ground pork sausage and ground sage pork sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, and set aside. Cook and stir celery, onion, mushrooms, and water chestnuts in the skillet until browned and tender. Season with garlic powder.
• Mix prepared rice, sausage, celery mixture, and eggs in the prepared baking dish. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until lightly browned.

"BIG BILL'S" WILD RICE & CORNBREAD DRESSING

Steps:

• 1. First things first....let's make the cornbread!!! preheat oven to 375*. In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, buttermilk and 4 tbs of melted butter whisk to combine. in a separate large bowl combine your cornmeal, flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda whisk to combine. Add your wet ingredients to your dry and stir until just combined. pour batter into prepared 9" baking dish bake for 30 minutes at 375* remove from oven and let stand 10 minutes.
• 2. I always cook my rice ahead of time. Combine 2 cups chicken stock water and rice in medium saucepan bring to just a boil cover reduce heat and simmer 1 hour, drain rice and transfer to large bowl.
• 3. Heat EVOO in skillet add onion and celery, salt, pepper, and a dash of sage. cook until softened about 5 minutes, add the fresh parsley and thyme and cook 1 more minute, remove from heat and add to bowl of rice mixture.
• 4. at this time take your cooled cornbread and crumble it into the large bowl of rice mixture and stir to combine.
• 5. Transfer Mixture into prepared baking dish (13x9x2) drizzle with 1/2 cup of chicken stock and 1/4 cup of melted butter. Bake until golden and crispy, about 25 minutes

MINNESOTA WILD RICE DRESSING

Steps:

• In medium-size skillet, over medium heat, sauté bacon until almost crisp.
• Add onion, celery and mushrooms; continue cooking until vegetables are tender.
• In large bowl combine bacon mixture, wild rice, bread crumbs, sausage, oregano and sage.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper if desired.
• Spoon dressing into lightly greased 2-quart casserole dish.
• Bake, covered, at 325 degrees F 35-40 minutes.