Autumn Bourbon Brown Rice

By stancec44

Enjoy as a side dish, salad topper, savory breakfast item, or as an easy afternoon snack.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Brown Rice
• 2 1/4 cup water or stock
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt (if you used water above)
• 1/2 sweet onion, finely diced
• 1 apple, finely diced
• 1/4 medium butternut squash, finely diced
• olive oil
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon Vermont Maple Syrup
• 1/4 cup walnuts, toasted
• 1/8 cup Bourbon
• black pepper, to taste
• teaspoon salt, to taste
• Vermont Maple Syrup, to taste

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degree

2. Finely dice apple, butternut squash and sweet onion. Toss the diced fruits and vegetables in olive oil, cinnamon, salt, pepper, and maple syrup before spreading on a non-stick jelly roll pan.

3. Roast mixture in oven for 25-30 minutes until tender.

4. While mixture roasts, cook brown rice.

5. While rice and mixture cools, toast 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, just into lightly aromatic.

5. Once both rice, walnuts and vegetable and fruit mixture have cooled, combine mixture and walnuts into the rice pot on the stove, stirring to mix. Add bourbon, black pepper, salt, and a dash of Vermont Maple Syrup just to taste.