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Orzo Pasta Salad with Wild Rice and Cranberries

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Refreshing cold orzo pasta salad with a light cranberry vinaigrette dressing and full of veggies and cranberries.

Ingredients

  • ¼ cups Dried Cranberries
  • ¼ cups Cranberry Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon Sugar
  • 1 clove Garlic, Minced
  • 3 Tablespoons Red Wine Vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ½ teaspoons Pepper
  • 4 cups Cooked Orzo Or 2 Cups Uncooked
  • 1 box Uncle Ben's Wild Rice Original
  • 1-½ Tablespoon Olive Oil
  • ½ whole Red Bell Pepper
  • ½ whole Yellow Bell Pepper, Chopped
  • ½ cups Green Onions White And Green Parts Chopped

Preparation

Directions:

For Dressing – combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer, stir until sugar dissolves, pour into a bowl, add garlic and Uncle Ben’s seasoning packet. Stir in vinegar, salt, and black pepper. Let cool in refrigerator..

For Salad – prepare orzo and Uncle Ben’s wild rice as normal, only omit seasoning packet from rice preparation. Drain orzo and put in serving bowl, pour olive oil over top and stir to separate pasta. Add rice, peppers and green onions. Pour dressing over top and stir, coating well. Serve chilled.

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dishinanddishes on 8.13.2009

Dyana

Thanks so much for the heads up on the ingredients. I struggled with how to add them early on and I am correcting them now! Glad you loved the recipe! I did too!

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dyana on 8.12.2009

I rated this 4 mitts but only because of the following:
– Sugar amount is not indicated (I added 2 tsps. and that seemed to work out just fine)
– Type of pepper (1/2 pepper) is not mentioned (I can now tell from the photo that it is likely a peppercini? no matter, I didn’t have any on hand)
– No mention of green onions is made in the ingredient list, but the instructions talk about adding green onions (luckily, I happened to have these on hand!)

Outside of these 3 very small things, this recipe is wonderful! The flavors are subtle and well rounded. The cranberry base stands up well against the wild rice, giving this dish a very autumn-like flavor. I could totally gobble this up with some Thanksgiving turkey, and it complimented the Herb Roasted Chicken (found on this site!) perfectly for Day 4’s meal of my Home Eats for 7 Days project. Wish dishes like these, eating at home is easily going to win over eating out!!

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