Italian Rice

1 1/2 cup minute rice, cooked
1 bunch of cilantro
1 jar of Prego meat sauce
1 lb of ground beef
20 meatballs, cooked
1/2 white onion, diced or sliced
2 cups shredded cheese

Cook rice as directed on box.  In cake pan, butter and spread prego across bottom of the pan. In a skillet, cook onions and hamburger until no longer pink.   Add cooked ground beef and meatballs to prego sauce and stir.  Add cooked rice to pan and stir into meat and sauce. Sprinkle Cilantro on top or stir into rice mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Then top with cheese and bake an additional 5 minutes until cheese is melted. Serves 5 people.

Chicken Stir Fry

Chicken Stir Fry:

6 chicken tenders or 3 chicken breasts, cut into cubes
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 bag frozen vegetables
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup minute rice, cooked

Heat wok to 350 degrees with vegetable oil.  Add cubed chicken and cook until sides are no longer pink.  Lower temperature to 300 degrees.  Add frozen vegetables and cook until soft and heated through.  Add rice and mix all together.  Add soy sauce to taste.  Serves 4.

Italian Rice Dressing For Turkey

This is my great aunt Faye's recipe.  It's an Italian rice stuffing and it so good.  We make it every year.   

Ingredients:   

                          

 1 stick butter                                                                                             

1 3/4 cup Minute rice, cooked

1 lb Sausage, raw

1 egg

1/4 tsp Allspice

3 tsp Sage

1 tsp Salt

8 slices of Bread

2 carrots

1 bunch of Parsley

2 Celery

1 large Onion

Break the bread into crumbs and put in a Ziploc bag and let sit for a few hours, to harden.  Grind up carrots, parsley, celery, and onion in food chopper and put them in a skillet pan on the stove. Simmer in butter until they are cooked. Let veggies cool.  Cook minute rice as directed on the package.  Add raw sausage and bread crumbs to veggie mixture, and add allspice, egg, sage, and salt.  Mix all together in a big bowl.. Put all ingredients into turkey and cook turkey in the oven.

Cheesy Chicken Risotto

2 cups Minute rice, cooked
1 can of cream of chicken
1 can of milk
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
salt and pepper to taste

Cook rice as directed on the box.  In a separate pan, prepare cream of chicken as directed on box, including 1 can of milk as requested on the can.  Heat until hot, as directed.  Sprinkle cheddar cheese and salt and pepper over top of soup and mix together.  Mix cream of chicken mixture into rice.  Heat on stove for 2 minutes and then remove from heat.  Let the rice mixture thicken.  Serve with chicken breasts or chicken cordon bleus.  

Chicken and Onion Rice

This is Elaine Wayment Smith's recipe:

8 Pieces of chicken, cleaned and skinned
1 (8 oz) bottle Russian Salad Dressing
1 package dehydrated onion soup mix
1 (8 oz) jar Apricot Jam
Juice of 1 lemon

Place chicken in foil covered pan. Mix other ingredients together. Put in pan and heat and stir together. Spread over chicken. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Serve with onion rice.

Onion Rice:

1 cup rice
1 can onion soup
1 can water
1 tbsp butter

Mix together and bake in a scovered saucepan dish for 1 hour at 350 degrees. Stir lightly before serving.

Spanish Rice

This is Cleone's recipe:

1/3 cup shortening
1 cup sliced onion
1/2 cups sliced green pepper
1 cup sliced celery
3 1/2 cups sliced tomatoes
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 cup Rice
1 lb ground beef or veal

Wash rice thoroughly and let soak while preparing other ingredients. Melt shortening, brown onions and meat. Add pepper and rest of vegetables. Sprinkle rice on top and cover with lid. Let steam 8 to 10 minutes. Turn heat off and cook for 30 minutes. Put in crock pot and cook on low for 2 to 3 hours.

Chicken Stir Fry

3 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast, thawed and diced
1 Bag Carrots or Broccoli, Frozen
2 Cups Minute Rice
1 Bottle Soy Sauce

In an electric skillet, spray with cooking spray and add diced chicken. Cook on medium heat until sides turn tan. Add frozen veggies and stir until soft. Add rice and soy sauce to taste and stir. Then Serve.

Broccoli and Cheese Rice

1 cup Broccoli
1 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
1 Tablespoon Butter
1 Cup Minute Rice
1 Cup Water
1 Teaspoon Milk

Cook Minute rice in a sauce pan according to the directions on the box. Then add butter and let melt on medium or high heat. Add broccoli, milk, and cheese, and stir, cooking on low for 10 minutes. Then serve.