Baked Wild Rice Amandine

Ingredients

Quantity	Ingredients
1/3 cup	sliced almonds
2 tbsp	unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened
1 cup (about 6 ounces)	wild rice, rinsed well in several changes of cold water, drained
2 1/4 cups	chicken broth, heated
1/4 tsp	salt

Preheat oven to 475F.
In a 10-inch round baking dish toast almonds in oven until golden, about 5 minutes.
Add butter and rice and toss to coat.
Stir in broth and salt and cover dish with foil.
Bake rice in lower third of oven 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until rice is tender. If all of broth has not been absorbed, bake rice, uncovered, 5 minutes more. (Rice may be made 1 day ahead and reheated before serving.)

Serves 4