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BROCCOLI AND RICE Recipes

• ½ Cup butter
• 1 Medium chopped onion
• ½ Cup chopped celery
• 1 Can cream of chicken soup
• ½ Can evaporate milk
• ½ Pound Velveeta cheese
• 1 Cup grated cheddar cheese
• 1 Cup Uncle Ben’s long grain wild rice with seasoning package
• 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen chopped broccoli

Sauté onion and celery in the butter. Add the soup, milk and cheese to make a sauce. Place cooked rice in greased casserole dish. Cover with cooked broccoli. Pour soup mixture over top. Bake for 45 minutes in a preheated oven at 350 degrees.

BROCCOLI AND RICE

• 1 (10 ounce) package frozen broccoli
• 1 Cup minute rice
• 1 Can mushroom soup
• 1 (6 ounce) jar Cheese Whiz
• ½ Cup chopped onion
• ½ Cup chopped green peppers
• ¼ Cup olive oil

Sauté onions and green peppers in the olive oil. When vegetables are tender, add the soup and Cheese Whiz. Stir until creamy and set aside.

Cook rice as directed on box. When rice is nearly finished cooking, add thawed broccoli. Stir creamy mixture into the rice and broccoli mixture. Pour mixture into a greased 2 quart casserole dish. Bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Many rice dishes are versions of a broccoli and rice casserole. All that I have tasted are simply delicious. There is just something about pairing up broccoli and rice! Try the above recipes. You can add chopped cooked chicken to either and have a full meal in one.

RICE PUDDING

• 5 Cups milk
• 2 ½ Cups white rice
• ½ Cup sugar
• 1 Teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ Cup raisins
• ½ Pint whipping cream
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla

Put milk, sugar and rice in a heavy saucepan. Heat on moderately high heat to boiling point, BUT NOT BOILING. Cover and steam for 50 minutes. Quickly add cinnamon, raisins and vanilla and stir. Turn off heat, cover pan again and let set on burner for 10 more minutes. Spoon pudding into desert dishes. And refrigerate until cold. Before serving, whip up the ½ pint of whipping cream and top each pudding with whipped cream.

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