Swamp Rice | Swamp Soup-Inspired Rice | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with swamp rice.

That's right. This was inspired by a fairly famous green soup recipe. And besides being beautiful, delicious, and nutritious, this is perfect for people who feel like the regular rice side dishes just do not contain enough polyphenols. And if you're not sure what those are, you should definitely ask somebody.

And to get started, we will transfer a diced onion into some olive oil in a pan set over medium heat. And we will toss in a nice big pinch of salt. And then we'll cook these onions, stirring for about 5 minutes or so, or until they start to soften up and turn translucent.

And while these are cooking, and we're giving them the occasional stir, we can go ahead and multitask. And we can put together what I call our swamp rice smoothie, which starts by transferring two pack cups of baby spinach into a blender. And when I say packed, I mean really, really packed. In fact, I packed mine so tight, I could barely get it out of this measuring cup. And then besides the spinach, we'll also do three or four nice big jalapenos, which have been seated.

And then we'll also want to add an entire bunch of parsley. And you can trim and toss away