Sweetgreen Wild Rice

This Sweetgreen Wild Rice recipe is the best way to make wild rice if you are making any Sweetgreen copycat salads at home. It also makes a delicious side dish all on its own!

If you’ve never had wild rice, but you are wanting to make Sweetgreen copycat bowl recipes at home, you’ll have to learn how to make Sweetgreen’s warm wild rice.

Don’t worry, it’s super easy to make, and even simpler than making regular rice! All you’ll need is wild rice, chicken (or vegetable) broth and salt.

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• Why You’ll Love This Recipe
• Which Sweetgreen Salads Use Wild Rice?
• Ingredients & Substitutions
• How To Make Sweetgreen Warm Wild Rice
• Expert Tips
• Storage
• Recipe FAQs
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Easy to make — Wild rice is really easy to make. It does take a bit more time than regular rice, but it isn’t as finicky to get right. It’s more like cooking pasta rather than rice.
• Necessary for Sweetgreen copycat recipes — Sweetgreen uses wild rice in several of their recipes, so for copycat recipes, you’ll need to learn to make this wild rice.
• Versatile — Wild rice works well as an optional add-in for so many salad recipes. Adding in wild rice turns your salad into a “bowl” recipe that is more filling for a proper meal.
• Meal preps well — Once cooked, wild rice keeps well in the fridge for up to 5 days, so it is great for prepping a big batch on the weekend and using it throughout the week.

Which Sweetgreen Salads Use Wild Rice?

You can always use wild rice as a healthy, optional add-in to almost any salad or bowl recipe, but here are the classic Sweetgreen bowl recipes that are made using wild rice:

• Sweetgreen Caramelized Garlic Steak
• Sweetgreen Harvest Bowl
• Sweetgreen Crispy Rice Bowl
• Sweetgreen Shroomami Bowl

Ingredients & Substitutions

• Wild Rice: You should be able to find wild rice at your local grocery store as long at it has a decently large selection. Wild rice is black in color. If you don’t like the taste of pure wild rice, you can use a mixed blend instead that will have some black grains mixed with other lighter colored rice grains, such as brown rice or jasmine rice. If you are using a blended mix, follow the cooking instructions on the package.
• Chicken Broth: Cooking wild rice in broth adds a greater depth of flavor compared to just using water. You can use vegetable both or beef broth as an alternative.
• Salt: A bit of salt brings out the flavors of the wild rice. If you want to reduce sodium, you can leave out the salt for this recipe.

How To Make Sweetgreen Warm Wild Rice

Step 1: Rinse the wild rice grains under cold water for 30 seconds to a minute.

Step 2: Add the wild rice, chicken broth and salt to a small saucepan. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, cover the pot and reduce the temperature to low to maintain a gentle simmer.

Step 3: Cook for about 30 to 45 minutes. Once the wild rice grains have begun to split open, the rice is done cooking. Drain out any excess water and let the grains cool slightly before serving.

Expert Tips

• Watch for splitting grains. A key method for determining when the wild rice is done cooking is to look for grains that are splitting open. Once you see some wild rice grains split in half, you can remove the rice from the stove.
• Use a fork to fluff the grains. Once the rice is done cooking, for extra fluffy rice, you can let it sit covered for about 10 minutes. Then drain the rice if needed and use a fork to fluff up the grains.
• Reduce the salt. If you are using a broth that is particularly salty, reduce the amount of added salt or leave it out entirely.

Storage

To store leftover wild rice, first let it completely cool to room temperature. Then store the rice in an airtight glass container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

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