Black Rice and Barley

Ingredients

• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons grape seed oil
• 1-1/2 cup black rice
• 1 cup barley
• 2 cups chopped mushroom
• 1 carrot diced
• 4-1/2 cups vegetable stock or water
• 1/2 cup flat leaf parsley chopped
• 1/3 cup pine nuts or sunflower seeds

How to make it

• Let wild rice sit in cold water for at least 15 minutes before cooking.
• Sauté onion and carrot with grape seed oil for 5 minutes and then add mushroom.
• Stir until onion is soft.
• Add wild rice and barley and stir for a couple of minutes.
• Pour in stock then add salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil then cover and simmer on low for 1 hour.
• Roast pine nuts in a toaster oven on a non-stick frying pan then allow to cool.
• When rice is cooked add parsley lime zest and pine nuts.
• Fluff rice with a fork before serving.