Rice Dressing combines long-grain brown rice with sausage and mushrooms and is super tasty. This healthier side dish is a delicious holiday staple but also makes a nice weeknight meal!
Course Main Dish, Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword rice dressing
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 50 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Calories 213kcal
Author Sue Ringsdorf
Ingredients
1 ½cupslong-grain brown rice
2cupslower-sodium chicken broth (or water)- more if cooking on stove top
2Tablespoonsolive oil
20oz.turkey sausage- or other sausage
1mediumyellow onion- chopped
4stalkscelery- chopped
16oz.sliced mushrooms
3clovesgarlic- minced
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper- to taste
a pinch of red pepper flakes- optional
Instructions
Brown sausage. Remove sausage from casings. In a stock pot, cook the turkey sausage until done. Remove to a bowl.
Sauté onions and celery. Add some olive oil to the stock pot and cook the chopped onion and celery for a few minutes. Add seasonings.
Add mushrooms and garlic. Then add the sliced mushrooms and cook for another 6-7 minutes, or until veggies are soft and liquids absorb. Add garlic at the end of the cooking and stir well.
Make brown rice. Cook the rice in an instant pot or on the stove top (according to package directions).
Combine dressing ingredients. To the veggies, add the cooked sausage and brown rice and stir well.
Serve. Serve the rice dressing with some extra black pepper and come chopped cilantro.
Notes
If using the instant pot to cook the rice, combine rice and chicken broth and cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. Do a natural release for about 8 minutes and release vent. Stir rice.