I live in Minnesota. It is going to be cold today and I am going to make some soup. Soup is not only a secret to your health, I think that it is good for the soul also.
Chicken wild rice soup is one of my favorite soups to make. The wild rice is still harvested by hand in Minnesota from a canoe on the northern lakes. You need to get a license to go into the rice paddies and there is a season that is open and closed like a hunting season. The wild rice is actually in the grass family. It is roasted after picking, much like what the Native American Indians used to do on a campfire to make it suitable for long term storage. That is the extent of the processing. It is healthy for you and has a nutty taste. It is also a little crunchy if you cook it that way. It still needs to be washed before cooking. I think that this history adds to the flavor of the soup. A cream of chicken wild and wild rice soup recipe is just a little different in that you add some cream, half and half of course.
There are so many variations of wild rice soup. It is different every time that I make it. I have used leftover ham, turkey and chicken. I have made it vegetarian. I use mushrooms when I have them. I used different ingredients to make it creamy or not. One of the spices that I have recently experimented with is using curry in the soup. I have used both sweet curry and hot or spicy curry.
I went to a restaurant the other day that was serving a delicious mushroom soup. It was good, but I am trying to reduce the salt or sodium content in my diet. When I make my own soup, I can do that. For more soup recipes, visit my site at eatdinner4two.com.
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