Eastern Rice Salad

"A wonderful East-Asian inspired salad! Very healthy with a wonderfully crunchy texture thanks to all the fresh vegtables. This is a perfect meal to throw together when it's too hot to cook!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
10-12
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a suacepan bring 1 1/2 cups salted water to a boil.
  • Add 3/4 cup rice, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
  • Refrigerate rice until chilled.
  • combine the chilled, cooked rice, mushrooms, green peppers, red peppers, cashews, green onions, bean sprouts, spinach and celery in a large bowl.
  • Blend the vegtrable oil, soy sauce, parsley and crushed garlic in a seperate bowl.
  • Pour the dressing over the salad 1 hour before serving and toss well.

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Reviews

  1. This recipe is quite addictive! I prepared it exactly as written, except using about 1/3 cup of oil instead of 1/2 cup. Also, I used brown instead of white rice. It's a really colourful, good-looking salad, very filling and very delicious. I think what made it hard for me to stop eating it was how refreshing it was. Perhaps it was the parsley, but whatever, this will become a regular fixture. Thanks!
     
  2. Yooper, I took your great recipe and ran with it. Not being able to help myself, I started adding a few things..water chestnuts, cilantro, red pepper flakes. Then I discovered my bean sprouts were slimy and had to leave them out. Oops, cashew bag is empty, so I tossed in sliced almonds. Then the dressing tasted a little bland, so I added a tsp. Chinese Five Spice powder, stirred up the whole thing and topped it with some crispy rice noodles and a handful of sesame seeds. Are you groaning, Yooper? We loved the salad and give you all the credit!!!
     
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