Ingredients

• 1.5 cup - wild rice or brown rice
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp - oil
• 300 g - rice
• 3 cups - water
• 1 chicken stock cube
• 600 g - swede
• 200 g - carrot
• 300 g - smoked spicy chicken sausage
• 1.5 tsp - salt
• 3 tsp - cumin
• 2 tsp - Tabasco sauce

How to Make Cajun Casserole

• Cook the wild rice separately as it takes much longer than the other.
• Allow to boil in plenty of water, covered, for approx 40 minutes. until it begins to crack up.
• Finely chop onion.
• Heat oil in a heavy bottomed saucepan and stir-fry onion and rice for approx 3 minutes.
• Pour water and crumble in stock cube.
• Allow to boil, covered for approx 5 minutes.
• Peel swede and carrot and cut into 1 cm pieces.
• Mix them into rice and allow to cook, covered, for a further 10 minutes approx. (Make in advance to this stage for better flavour).
• Cut up the chicken sausage, add to the mixture.
• Add all the remaining seasonings.
• Cook for a further 5-10 minutes and serve.