Harvest Wild Rice Salad

Prep time: 20 minutes
 Cook time: 45 minutes
Chill time: 1 hour
Servings: 6

• 3 cups water

• 1 cup wild rice

• 2 ribs celery, chopped

• 1 large red apple, cored and diced

• 1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts

• 1/3 cup golden raisins

• 1/4 cup minced red onion

• 1 tbsp. snipped fresh basil

• Dijon Vinaigrette (recipe follows)

• Freshly ground pepper to taste

Bring water and rice to a boil in a medium saucepan.  Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes or until rice is tender and splitting open; drain excess water and let cool.  Place in a large bowl with celery, apple, walnuts, raisins, onion and basil.  Pour vinaigrette over salad and toss well, season to taste with pepper.  Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, stirring once or twice.

Dijon Vinaigrette

Whisk together:

• 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

• 1/4 cup white wine vinegar

• 1 tbsp. honey

• 1/2 tbsp. Dijon mustard

• 1/2 tsp. salt