Wild Rice Salad with Butternut Squash & Pomegranates by Maren Ellingboe King

This fall side highlights one of Minnesota’s best known native plants, wild rice, and combines it with sweet roasted squash, creamy goat cheese, and zippy pomegranate seeds.

This is one of two featured recipes from Fresh Midwest: Modern Recipes from the Heartland by this week’s guest, Maren Ellingboe King. Paid subscribers can also enjoy a recipe for Maren’s Apple Cake. You can also hear our conversation with Maren here.

Excerpted with permission from Fresh Midwest: Modern Recipes from the Heartlan by Maren Ellingboe King:

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