WILD RICE-PINE NUT STUFFING

Servings: 2
Ingredients:

1/4 c  Wild rice, uncooked
1 c  Water
1    Green onion
1 sm Garlic clove, minced
1 ts Vegetable oil
1/4 c  Pine nuts or any chopped nut
1/2 ts Dried thyme

Cook the wild rice in the water until tender, about 1 hour. Add more water
if needed.

Meanwhile, saute the onion, garlic, nuts and thyme in the oil. Add the
wild rice. Simmer for 10 minutes to blend the flavors. Cool enough to
stuff into quail or one Cornish hen (or serve with chicken).

1/2 recipe - 182 calories, 1 bread exchange, 2 fat 15 grams carbohydrate, 4
grams protein, 11 grams fat 138 mg sodium, 114 mg potassium, 0 cholesterol

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986 Shared
but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

MY NOTE: Pine nuts are very expensive, about 5 times the cost of shelled
sunflower seeds in the bulk bin. They do not have a very strong flavor.

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