How to make VEGAN Wild Rice Pilaf with Lentils and Mushrooms
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00:00Hi and welcome to Healthy Home Cooking. Today we are making wild rice pilaf with lentils
00:06and mushrooms.
00:11Okay, the first step in making the pilaf is actually cooking the rice. All my grains are
00:25cooked in the Instant Pot. I was like the last one in my group to get an Instant Pot
00:30because I thought I could do everything on the stove, but I caved one day and I bought
00:34the Instant Pot and I haven't looked back. I make all my grains in here. I steam all
00:39my vegetables. I love this thing.
00:42So to do the pilaf, we are going to put two and a quarter cup of water into the pan. And
00:51then we are going to use one cup of brown rice and half a cup of wild rice. If you
01:03don't like wild rice or you don't have wild rice, just use another half cup of the brown
01:08rice. Place the lid on. Pressure cook. We are going to set it for 23 minutes. That's
01:2523 minutes on high. Walk away and do the next step.
01:32Next you are going to take one onion and put it in your food processor with the s-blade
01:39and about eight to ten cloves of garlic. Now you can mince the garlic and dice the onion
01:45by hand if you'd like, but I think the food processor is much easier and is definitely
01:51faster. Turn it on and pulse. And there we go.
02:16Now for the cooking part. I'm going to put the onions and the garlic into a pan. And
02:23this is the scariest part about cooking, at least it was for me, cooking without oil,
02:29the whole food plant based way. I was always used to cooking my onion in oil so it wouldn't
02:38stick, but honestly I wonder why I ever did it that way. And we'll turn that up to about
02:51seven to start. And then we're just going to leave the onion soften. Now as the onion cooks,
03:00the water is going to drain out of the onion and you're going to have liquid in the pan.
03:05If it's not soft by the time that liquid has evaporated, all you need to do is pour just a
03:11little bit more, a tablespoon or two of water from your kettle into the pan. That water does
03:17not need to be hot and it will just keep doing that until the onion and garlic is soft. And
03:25that should take, oh, maybe about seven, nine minutes. Okay, it's just starting to stick a
03:32little bit in this area of the pan. So as I said before, just put a little bit of water in
03:44and give it a stir and it will all release.
03:50And you can do that as many times as you need till the onion is soft.
03:56Now that the onion is soft, we're going to add three cups of water to the pan.
04:01One cup of vegetable broth,
04:11one tablespoon of tomato paste,
04:20two tablespoons of dried minced onion,
04:32one teaspoon of onion powder,
04:43two teaspoons of garlic powder,
04:55a quarter teaspoon of dried thyme leaves,
05:02two teaspoons of salt. If you are watching your salt, just omit the salt, not a big deal.
05:21Quarter teaspoon of ground black pepper,
05:28one bay leaf,
05:35maybe I can get, that was only part of one, so we got a little bay leaf to go in with that,
05:42and one cup of brown lentils.
05:51You're going to give that a stir, bring it to a boil,
05:54and then leave it cook until the lentils are done, which should be anywhere between 25 and 35
06:00minutes. So at 25 minutes, check it by tasting the lentil. If they're still crunchy, you need
06:06a little bit more time, so give it another five minutes and check again until they are soft.
06:11You don't want them to be mushy, just nice and soft.
06:17While that is cooking, then you're going to cook your mushrooms. So get a nonstick skillet,
06:25and add to that skillet, I'm going to turn that to maybe about seven or eight.
06:34You're going to add a pound of mushrooms,
06:39and I get the sliced mushrooms, that's one less thing I have to do, and they're the same price,
06:44so why not? And to that, I'm going to add two tablespoons of tamari. Tamari is your vegan soy
06:56sauce. You could also use coconut aminos. And we're just going to cook those until the mushrooms
07:07are completely done. The mushrooms are finished when just about all of the liquid has evaporated,
07:25as you can see. Now that the lentils are done, we're going to put the cooked mushrooms into
07:32the pan with the lentils. And also put the rice into the same pan.
07:55There we go, give it a good stir.
07:57And I guess it would have probably been easier to fish out the bay leaves before we added the rice,
08:07but say lovey, we'll eventually come across them. And there you have it, it's done. So let's plate
08:14it up. Oh boy, it looks wonderful. And I found the bay leaf. We will give it a whirl.
08:30Oh my goodness, it is so good. I didn't get a mushroom.
08:49Okay, well there you have it. A wonderful easy dish. You can either have it as a main course
08:56or a side. Thanks for joining me today in making wild rice pilaf with lentils and mushrooms.
09:04Be healthy and keep on cooking. Talking with my mouth full, my mother would not be proud. So that's it.
09:20Ah, there's the other bay leaf.