Brown Rice Salad with Peanuts and Spring Onions
Brown Rice Salad
Recipe Type: Salads
Cuisine: Fusion
Author: Caroline Artiss
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Serves: 6
Learn how to make a very healthy and very easy Brown rice salad. Great one to impress the in-laws?
Ingredients
2 cup’s of brown rice
4 spring onions sliced
1 red pepper sliced
½ cup / 100g Pumpkin seeds
½ cup / 100g Sunflower seeds
½ cup / 100g Peanuts
1 cup / 150g Sultanas
½ cup 100g Sesame seeds
Dressing
2 cloves garlic finely chopped / crushed
Large piece of ginger – 2 inches big, finely chopped
Zest of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 lemon
½ cup / 110 ml soy sauce (or tamari GF)
½ cup / 110 ml extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
Cook the rice in 4 cup’s of water, bring to the boil, the turn heat down to low
Leave to simmer with the lid on for ½ hour or until all the water has disappeared and the rice is cooked
Leave to cool
Put all the seeds and nuts on a baking tray and pop into a pre heated oven 180c/ gas 4 for 10 minutes
Once everything is cooled, just add the red peppers and spring onions and nuts and seeds to the rice
To make the dressing, simply add all the ingredients in a bowl and mix together
Pour dressing over the rice and mix everything together
Notes
This tastes great the day after too so you can make ahead. Also this is a good recipe for using up left over brown rice from the day before.