I served this with a seafood birthday dinner and I felt like it was a bit of a let down. It tasted good, but it's nothing special. It also looks completely boring once cooked - the apples fade and the raisins are pale. It needs more color.

This rice was AWESOME. My boyfriend and I both loved it. I will be making this again and again! I used brown rice, and since the bag called for 2C liquid, I used a whole 16-oz can of chicken broth. I also didn't have an onion so I subbed 1T onion powder. My kitchen smelled so good.

This is so easy and delicious. I follow the recipe exactly, but I use my rice cooker instead of on the stove. No fuss, no muss and perfect every time.

My family liked this for soemthing different. I was out of onions, so I used onion powder and I left out the raisins. I will be making this again.

I make this often and enjoy it as a side dish, and as leftovers for lunch the next day.

The rice was good as a side dish. The first time I made it, I followed the recipe exactly, and there was FAR too much butter. The next time, I used only enough butter necessary to cover the bottom of the pan, and it was a lot better. I would reduce the amount of raisins to somewhere around 1/3 cups. They overpower the dish in terms of aesthetics and in terms of taste when 1/2 cup is used. Next time, I might grate the apple. Overall, a good recipe.

I served this as a side dish to my honey-garlic marinated pork roast for dinner with family. It was tasty, but maybe a little bland. I will definitely make it again - possibly add a little something.

I enjoyed this recipe very much. It was sweet and salty and goes good with most asian dishes. I will definitly make this again.

I have to agree that this isn't the best recipe, but it's not bad. If you like lots of flavor, this might need more tinkering, this is somewhere in the middle between plain white rice and full flavored rice with a kick. This is definitely easy to make though.

I didn't care for the combination of the apples, onion and garlic, but my boyfriend thought it was okay. I won't make it again, but other people might like it.

My DH makes this for me all the time - he follows the recipe exactly and we love it. Not for those who like things more savory (as opposed to sweet) though!

i thought this was just okay, nice change from the plain rice. i ended up adding cumin to give it some spark.

I used apple sauce instead of an apple and added 1/2 tsp each cinnamon and cumin. Turned out great.

This is a nice side dish. No fireworks or drama, just a very good accompaniment to a main course. I had a yellow sweet bell pepper in the fridge that needed to be used so I added about 1/2 cup of it diced to the rest of the ingredients that got sauteed. I have had a similar dish at a restaurant where they add some slivered almonds to the rice as well.

this was a really nice side, but missing something. Will definitely make again, but will add pine nuts for sure and probably some honey and/or Chinese 5 spice.

My husband rated this a 4, but I thought it was more of a 2 or 3. I thought the leftovers tasted better the 2nd day. I'll probably make it again just to give it another chance.

A very tasty rice side dish. Not really spicy enough for my taste, and I did not really care for the raisins...it seemed to have more sweet than spice. Next time I'll try adding some curry and more garlic, it should compliment the raisins quite nicely.

My 2 year-old and I both loved this rice. I used a long grain and wild rice mixture, just because I love wild rice. Also, I used a little more chicken broth than indicated in the recipe, because if you use it in a can, you have 2 oz left over after you put in the 1 1/2 cups in the recipe. I couldn't bring myself to throw it out, but what are you gonna do with 2 ounces of leftover chicken broth?? Oh, the broth I had in the house was low-sodium, so that's what I used, and it was fine. This recipe seemed to have a perfect balance of the different flavors. I definitely wouldn't mess with the amounts of apples, raisins, and especially the garlic, or the balance might be lost. We'll be making this one often!