Rice may seem like a basic dish, but cooking it requires immense precision. To make perfectly fluffy rice, you need to use the correct cook time and rice-to-water ratio for the type and amount of rice ...

1. Chop the onion, celery, and carrots (AKA the mirepoix mix) into ½-inch dice (1.27 cm). Slice the mushrooms, chop the parsley garnish, and cut the turkey into 1-inch cubes (2.54 cm). 2. Heat the ...

Although it's been used in the kitchen for generations, you might be surprised to hear that wild rice isn't actually rice at all — it's a seed. This North American, semi-aquatic grass grows in bays, ...

The Star Tribune published its first wild rice soup recipe on Dec. 17, 1975. In the intervening years, more than 60 iterations have followed, which probably makes wild rice soup, in all its variations ...

Many of those 60-plus wild rice soup recipes appeared in the section’s former Restaurant Requests column, a decadeslong feature where readers asked Taste staffers to diligently track down recipes of ...

Grain salads don’t only hold their own against leafy salads — they often outshine them. And you know what countertop appliance really aids in said salads? A rice cooker! With "Top Chef" heading to ...