Be Good Brown Rice Salad
Learn how to make a very healthy and very easy Brown rice salad. Great one to impress the in-laws?
Ingredients – Serves 6
- 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
- ½ cup / 110 ml extra virgin olive oil
Cook the rice in 4 cup’s of water, bring to the boil, the turn heat down to low and 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.
Then 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.
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.
Watch my video tutorial:
Oh my goodness….earlier on this evening I watched your youtube clip on how to make the brown rice salad. Although I didn’t have any of the vegetables you used or seeds at hand, I just threw in what ever veggies i had lying around my fridge – and it turned out brilliantly. That dressing is phenomenal – I intended to make it for lunch tomorrow…but i think its going to have to be tonights dinner! X
hiya, firstly, what an awesome name – the travelling chopsticks! love it, will check out your blog and thanks so much for the comment! so happy you like the salad
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