Rice with goodies is perhaps the ultimate leftover dish. It’s a wild flavor experience meant to utilize all the leftover or “I don’t know what to do with this” type ingredients in your fridge and cupboard. This recipe calls for a certain few things like turkey and bacon, but you can really use anything that you have available to you. The best thing to do with this recipe is to use it as a baseline and begin experimenting with it at your leisure.
Health Benefits
Rice with goodies is a hard dish to ascertain health benefits for, mostly because it’s never made the same way twice. The entire premise of the dish is that it makes use of whatever you have laying around in your fridge or cupboard. But one of the more interesting ingredients in this recipe is turkey. Turkey is noted for being a lean meat that is low in fat and cholesterol while being extremely high in protein making it one of the more heart healthy meats available; even more so than chicken.
Ingredients
cups water: 3
cups white rice – uncooked : 1 1/2
slices bacon: 3
onion – chopped: 1/2
large white onion: 1
large white onion: 2
carrot – chopped: 1
cup peas: 1/2
cup fresh mushrooms – sliced: 1
cup slivered almonds: 1/2
cup raisins: 1/2
granny Smith apple - peeled, cored, and diced: 1
cup turkey meat – cooked and chopped: 1
tsp chicken soup base: 1
tbsp soy sauce: 3
cup parsley – chopped : 1/2
ground black pepper to taste
How To Make Rice with Goodies
- Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
- Stir in the rice.
- Reduce the heat, cover the pan, and let it simmer for 20 mins.
- Place the bacon in a large, deep skillet.
- Cook over medium high heat until the bacon is evenly browned.
- Add the onion, celery, carrot, peas, mushrooms, almonds, raisins and apple into the skillet.
- Slowly cook and stir at a medium temperature until the concoction becomes tender.
- Add the turkey, chicken soup base, soy sauce, parsley and pepper.
- Stir in the rice.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
Trivia
Some people believe bacon makes everything taste better.