Being a vegetarian, I'm always looking for new ideas and I really enjoyed this rice dish. The only changes I made were to use brown rice, frozen spinach and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. The next time I make it, I'm going to add a can of black beans and use it as a main dish.
This was really good. I used a blend of long-grain and brown rice and added mushrooms. I also used frozen spinach which I thoroughly drained and sauteed for a few minutes on it's own (this step may be what the previous reviewer was missing - you sometimes have to cook frozen spinach a little more to get the "freezery" taste out of it). I served this on a platter and put the cheese down the middle of the dish (my kids can be picky about parm). All in in all it was really good - I recommend using different rices for texture and flavor. Thanks for the recipe!
This is amazing. I used Minnesota wild rice (60 min. instead of instant) and mixed balsamic and white wine vinegar wit a little lemon juice for the dressing. For season salt I used Mrs. Dash. The flavors complement one another beautifully. We'll be having this regularly and I'll double the recipe next time!
I have to review this as they changed some of the ingredients on me. I use italian dressing not vinagrette (although I am going to try greek too as that might be an interesting flavour as well with some feta cheese) and I use Mrs. Dash original as the seasoning salt. And yes fresh spinach is better as it is less watery. I also like it with mushrooms thanks for the idea!:o)
Mmmmm mm! Hubs and I have both decided we really really like rice side dishes like this with lots of added vegetables. They re pretty they re delicious and they re good for you. I particularly liked the addition of the fresh spinach in this one. I prepared this with regular long grain rice (I don t use instant) and eliminated the vinaigrette. I loved the Parmesan in mine but in consideration of Parmesan Hating Hubs I left it out of his portion so he wouldn t whine. (He said it tasted good and it didn't stink) This and some steamed broccoli was just the right side dish alongside Mushroom Melt Stuffed Chicken also from this site.
I used Jasmine rice because that was what I had on hand. I followed the receipe to the letter. This dish was great. Can't wait to make it again.
Very colorful excellent dish. I used whole grain white & wild rice not instant rice so cooking time was significantly increased. Will definitely make again.
I needed a simple side dish to use up some fresh spinach and bell peppers and this was perfect. I used my regular long grain white rice and didn't add the vinaigrette dressing tasted fine without it.
very good. I would make it again. It makes wonderful leftovers and the flavors enhance the second or third day.
Maybe it's caused I used frozen spinach but this was weird. And I love all the veggies and cheese that is in it. Just maybe not together. It was very sticky and bland. To me it tasted weird
