Comments on: Minnesota Wild Rice Soup

By: shanael

shanael — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:17:20 +0000

Yum, just made this for dinner and I”m having to restrain myself from eating the pot before everyone is ready to sit down. It does take a fair bit of time so be warned, but so worth it. Another guess at what the problem of the first reviewer might have been is maybe they didn’t cook the rice separately, I could see that eating up a ton of the liquid. Now if only the biscuits would get out of the oven so I could have a full bowl instead of just stealing tastes out of the pot!

By: hannyb

hannyb — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:31:44 +0000

I dogeared this earlier in the week and made it last night too. Logged on to review it this morning and was so surprised to see a negative review! I’ll go ahead with my original review because it’s almost like we’re describing different soups!

I made a few mods straight off. No wild rice so I just cooked up your normal brown rice the usual way and used that. I also chopped, minced and grated all my veggies before I started cooking the soup, so was a little fatigued by the prep but I was honestly amazed at the taste. In my kitchen, this recipe produced a creamy, hearty soup with the added bonus of soooo many veggies! It’s not a quick meal but if you have a couple hours on a cold Sunday…perfect.

Just a note about the previous reviewer not having enough liquid – I think this might be from having the heat up too high for the simmering time. When it came time to simmer, I moved it from my largest to my smallest element and had it on low low low.

Thanks mnheather for the recipe!

By: karencupcake

karencupcake — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:33 +0000

Tried to make this soup last night and it turned into a two hour boiling over mess.. unfortunately!
The liquid suggested was not enough……… I ended up in a too small pot having to add in 32 more ounces of broth… the taste was just bland, so I ended up having to doctor it up with some other spices…. all in all It ended up tasting good, but was a HUGE mess.. as the amount of liquid and food ended up needed to be in a bigger pot than when I started out! It also took much longer to get all the ingredients to cook.. and you have to remember to add in cooking time for the RICE which was lots longer than expected.