Wild Rice Soup

Does any one have any good wild rice recipes? Looking to use up all the left over turkey from thanksgiving?

Thanks and pray for ice soon!

Buy an envelope of Shore Lunch wild rice soup mix from Menards. Add your turkey and water. Not half bad.

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Buy an envelope of Shore Lunch wild rice soup mix from Menards. Add your turkey and water. Not half bad.

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X2 but I use a chicken breast and chicken broth according to instructions.

Crock Pot Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

1-1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, cubed (frozen is okay)
1-1/4 cup uncooked wild rice
3 large carrots sliced
3 stalks celery, thinly sliced
1 large yellow onion, chopped
1 can sliced mushrooms
6 cups water
8 chicken bouillon cubes
1-1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

To Flavor
Garlic
Cayenne Powder (enough to give it flavor, not to heat it up)
Rosemary
Thyme
bay leaves (3 or 4)

In large (6-quart) crock pot, combine all ingredients except the heavy cream and flour. Cover and cook on low heat setting for 5 hours, or until the chicken is cooked through and the rice is tender.

Combine the heavy cream and the flour. Slowly stir the cream mixture into the soup. Cook and stir constantly for 5 minutes, or until mixture is slightly thickened. If desired, turn the crock pot to the warm setting until served.

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

3 cups cooked wild rice
1 cup chopped celery
½ cup chopped green pepper
1 cup minced carrot
½ cup chopped onion
Dash of garlic powder
Salt
Pepper
¼ cup butter
8 ounces canned mushrooms
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 ¼ cups chicken broth
4 cups cooked, cubed chicken
4 ounces slivered almonds
Milk

Prepare wild rice as shown below. Stir together the soups and chicken broth and set aside.

Melt butter and sauté celery, green pepper, carrot, onion, and mushrooms. Combine sautéed vegetables, soup mixture, chicken, and wild rice. Add milk to reach the desired consistency, and season to taste with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

Simmer for 30 minutes. Do not boil! Garnish with slivered almonds.

Wild Rice

1 cup raw wild rice
3 cups boiling water
2 tsp butter
Dash of pepper
3 tsp chicken bouillon

Rinse rice in cold water three times and soak overnight. Put all ingredients in a 2 quart covered baking dish, cover, and bake at 350 degrees for 1 ½ hours. Check after 1 hour and add more water if the rice is dry.

I make both of the recipes above (in fact, I think I may have gotten the first one from IDO). Both are good. You will need to adjust if you’re using already-cooked meat, though.

Here is a simple, but tasty recipe.
3/4 c. wild rice
one can cream of potatoe soup
one can cream of chicken soup
one can of milk
1/4 lb crisp fried bacon crumbled
1/4 cup chopped onion
turkey or chicken to your taste
The most important thing is if you can get your hands on real wild rice. That stuff they call wild rice in the stores in not the real deal. It’s commercially grown. I’m lucky to have a cousin who’s married to an Ojibwa gal up north that I get mine from. Hundred times better tasting when it’s traditionally harvested and parched.

yep the bacon makes it better

Was going to add put a little hot sauce in any of the recipes to make better. I see the 1st recipe that Ralph put up has some cayenne pepper to it. Yep just enough to flavor but makes you wonder what that is in there.

The wife made some fantastic Turkey soup with our left overs. Think she boiled the bones and everything in a pot with seasonings for the better part of a day. Then added some more vegies and noodles. Dang that stuff was good.

tried the shore lunch creamy wild rice mix last night. Used up some left-over turkey. All I can say is that I’m still thirsty, looking at the sodium level I can see why. Even my wife who will run her salted fries through more salt said it was salty. There was more white rice than wild, but it tasted good. I’d go with one of the home-made recipies, always using lower sodium broth. I always try to find the natural wild rice, not the cultivated.

My wife got Bear Creek Creamy Wild Rice Soup Mix and then cooked off some grouse and it was very good. Don’t know where she got it, but I know I had two bowls right off the bat!!!

Mark

Heres the recipes I did,

Wild Rice Soup

6 tbls butter

1 tbsp minced onion

½ cup flour

3 cups chicken broth

2 cups cooked wild rice

1/3 cup minced ham

½ cup grated carrots

3 tbsp chopped slivered almonds

½ tsp salt

1 cup half and half

2 tbsp dry sherry (optional)

Melt butter in saucepan

Sauté onion until tender

Blend in flour

Gradually add broth

Cook, stirring constantly until the mixture comes to a boil, boil 1 minute

Stir in rice, ham, carrots, almonds, salt

Simmer about 5 minutes

Blend in half and half and sherry

Heat until serving temperature

Instead of ham I did turkey also added more onions.