Warm Wild Rice Salad with Sausages and Apples
Servings 4 adults
Easy to make, warming and flavourful, my delicious Warm Wild Rice Salad with Sausages and Apples is a recipe the whole family will love.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons mild olive oil, divided
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped
- 8 good quality sausages If the sausages are thin you may want to use 12. Use vegetarian sausages to make this recipe meat free.
- 1 cup long grain and wild rice
- 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 3 eating apples, cored and chopped but not peeled I like to mix red and green skinned apples for colour if possible
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 to 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard, plain or wholegrain
- 1 teaspoon honey
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C or 180°C for fan or convection ovens).
- Bake the sausages in a roasting pan for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through. Remove from the oven and keep warm.
- Meanwhile, cook the rice in a pan of boiling, salted water according to package directions. When cooked, drain and keep warm.
- While the rice is cooking, heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan oven medium heat.
- Sauté the onion until it begins to soften. Sprinkle the onion with a bit of salt to keep it from browning too much.
- Add the garlic and chopped apples and stir fry for a moment or two.
- When the sausages are cool enough to handle, cut each one in 3 or 4 smaller pieces. Be careful not to burn yourself.
- Add the pieces of sausage to the frying pan.
- Mix the remaining two tablespoons of oil with the cider vinegar, honey and mustard. You can either whisk the ingredients together or shake them up in a clean jam or Mason jar.
- Pour the mixture over the sausages and apples and stir to coat.
- Allow everything to sizzle up together and heat through. The apples should be slightly softened and tender crisp.
- Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
- To serve the Warm Wild Rice Salad with Sausages and Apple, divide the rice between 4 plates.
- Serve the sausage and apple mixture on top of the rice.
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