stuffing rice mashup

I'm sure this has been done before, but I came up with something for dinner last night that I think was pretty yummy - I call it "stuffing rice"

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it smells like Thanksgiving! I sauteed some celery and shallots in butter while my brown rice was cooking. Then chopped up some dried apricots, and pulled out some raisins. After the rice was done, I threw the dried fruit and sauteed veg into the rice pan and put the lid back on to let the fruit steam a bit. 

Then I mixed a big ole blob of butter into the pan and stirred everything up together. Added salt and pepper to taste. I had reheated a chicken in my crock pot from the day before, and dished out some tender chicken on top of the rice. Before serving, I spooned some of the delicious, salty chicken juices and oils on top of everything for the extra good nutrients in the broth. Too bad I didn't have any sage on hand. That would have gone really well in it. 

I'm definitely going to make it again! On the side I served some raw carrots with homemade garlic yogurt sauce. Pretty prettyyyy tasty.