Summer Rice Salad Recipe
Summer Rice Salad!! Is that what you are looking for?? Then this is the right place to be! Rice is the primary ingredient in Summer Rice Salad. It is the answer when you look for a tasty Side Dish. Don't rob yourself of the pleasure of having Summer Rice Salad. Go and prepare it immediately.
Ingredients
1 cup (250 mL) long grain rice*, uncooked
2 raw carrots, peeled and grated
4 to 6 green onions, thinly sliced
1/4 cup (60 mL) parsley, chopped
1/2 cup (125 mL) celery and leaves, diced
1 cup (250 mL) green peas, cooked
Dressing:
1/2 tsp (2 mL) salt
1/4 tsp (1 mL) each pepper and dry mustard
A good pinch of sugar
2 tbsp (30 mL) cider or wine vinegar
4 tbsp (60 mL) oil of your choice
Directions
€¢ Microwave rice according to the instructions for long grain rice in the Rice Cooking Chart. Cool.
€¢ Cook and cool the green peas.
€¢ Add to the cool rice the grated raw carrots, green onions, parsley, celery and leaves, and the cooked and cooled green peas.
€¢ Blend together the ingredients for the dressing. Pour over the rice mixture, toss lightly with a fork. Place in a bowl.
€¢ To taste, top with a good spoonful of capers or 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of chopped nasturtium seeds, or with nasturtium flowers, which are edible and have a very nice peppery flavor, or with a good handful of minced lovage, or a handful of chopped walnuts.
€¢ All are very nice on this salad.
€¢ This recipe yields 4 cups (1 L) of salad.
€¢ Cook and cool the green peas.
€¢ Add to the cool rice the grated raw carrots, green onions, parsley, celery and leaves, and the cooked and cooled green peas.
€¢ Blend together the ingredients for the dressing. Pour over the rice mixture, toss lightly with a fork. Place in a bowl.
€¢ To taste, top with a good spoonful of capers or 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of chopped nasturtium seeds, or with nasturtium flowers, which are edible and have a very nice peppery flavor, or with a good handful of minced lovage, or a handful of chopped walnuts.
€¢ All are very nice on this salad.
€¢ This recipe yields 4 cups (1 L) of salad.
