Rice, Holiday

By MarieR

Ingredients

• 1 pound (about 2 2/3 cups) uncooked mixed rice**
• 3 1/3 cups boiling chicken stock (or beef stock)
• 1 package (1-ounce) onion soup mix
• 1/3 cup dried onions
• 1 cup fresh bell pepper**** chopped
• 2 teaspoons black pepper
• 1/2 cup (1 stick; 4-ounces) butter

Details

Servings 1

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, rack in the middle position

*** Can use all white or a one-pound package of Trader Joe's California Rice Trilogy. If you can't get that, use 1 cup long-grain brown rice, 1 cup wild rice, and 1/2 cup brown Basmati rice. (Or any other combination you wish, as long as it adds up to 2 and 2/3 cups of dry rice.)

****or can use 1 sixteen-ounce package frozen tri-color bell peppers (or a sixteen-ounce package of frozen corn & peppers).

Rinse off the rice in a strainer and pat it dry. Mix rice and all ingredients except butter together in a large bowl. Transfer mixture to a greased casserole dish.
Cut the butter into 8 pieces and put it on top of the casserole.

Cover the casserole with heavy-duty foil if it doesn't have a cover.

Bake at 350 degrees F. for 2 hours.

Take off the foil and bake for another 20 to 30 minutes.