Brown Rice With Fruits And Vegetables

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 cups brown rice (if you can get it, lundberg's brown rice blends are especially nice in this dish)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 large yellow onion, chopped
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• mixed vegetables, of your choice cut into small pieces (we like cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peas, yellow, red, and orange peppers, and celery)
• golden raisin (regular will work too)
• dried cranberries
• 1 apple, cored and chopped
• slivered almonds (optional)
• sharp cheddar cheese, cubed (optional)
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 cook rice as directed on package.
• 2 while rice is cooking, sauté the chopped onion in the butter until translucent.
• 3 add longer cooking vegetables like cauliflower, carrots, celery, and continue to sauté.
• 4 salt and pepper to taste.
• 5 add the green pepper and the quicker cooking vegetables next like broccoli, peas, and other colored peppers.
• 6 when all the vegetables are tender, add the raisins, cranberries, and apple, and sauté a little longer.
• 7 when the rice is done, mix the rice with the sautéed fruits and veggies and cook together for a little while over low heat.
• 8 if desired, mix in almonds and cheese chunks right before serving, letting the cheese chunks melt a bit.