Wild rice with buttered pecans and tangerines

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Butter
½ cup Shelled pecans
3 Tangerines
2 cups Cooked wild rice
1 teaspoon Ginger, peeled and minced
The Versatile Grain
and the
Elegant Bean
by Sheryl and Mel London
ISBN 0-671-76106-4
pg 267
½ cup Celery leaves, minced or
¼ cup Lovage
1 large Scallion, minced
1 tablespoon Parsley, minced
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Melt butter in small skillet and add pecans. Toast, stirring constantly, until fragrant and just beginning to color. Set skillet aside. Peel only the thin rind from two of the tangerines and mince it finely. Then peel all three tangerines, pull off any white membrane, and segment them, removing the pits. Combine with the pecans cooked rice, ginger, celery leaves, scallions, parsley and the salt and pepper. Transfer to a 3-qt. over-to-table dish, cover with aluminum foil. When ready to serve, preheat oven to 450F. and bake, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes.

Submitted By DIANE LAZARUS On 03-27-95

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