Southwest Rice Salad
"This healthy salad has lots of taste and eye appeal. Add more or less jalapenos to suit your own heat preference. Most people like it this way and I serve some hot sauce on the side for the heat lovers."
photo by moonpoodle
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1 (16 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (12 ounce) can white corn, drained
- 1 bunch green onion, chopped
- 1⁄3 cup canola oil
- 1⁄4 cup fresh squeezed lime juice (3-4 limes)
- 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 2 -3 pickled jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- salt
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optional
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 ripe tomatoes, chopped
directions
- In a large bowl, combine the rice, beans, corn and onions.
- Toss to mix.
- In a food processor, blend remaining ingredients, except the cilantro and tomatoes, until the peppers are finely minced.
- Pour the dressing over the rice mixture and mix well.
- Garnish with the cilantro and chopped tomatoes.
- This salad can be made 1-2 days in advance and served either cold or room temperature.
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Reviews
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Wow, what a great tasting salad. I wasn't too sure about the brown sugar, but I made this exactly as directed. I only had fresh jalapeño, so I used a little trick of poaching them in a little water until they softenend, then used them like the pickled jalapeños. Everything was wonderful, and we enjoyed this recipe very much. Thanks so much for sharing. -
Very good recipe. I didn't have green onions, so I used red. Also added some red and green peppers from my garden as I thought it needed more color. It was great! I didn't even use the jalapeno, but I could see where the taste would improve with it. Thanks for the recipe! -
I needed a quick pitch in dinner salad and this was great. I had to use what I had available - so that meant kidney beans, not black beans and regular onions, not green onions. I used basil olive oil and jalapeno balsamic vinegar as well. It was really good.
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Overall I think this dish is great and a good way to jazz up the regular sidedish dilemma. I did change a few things as we do not have a taste for hot or spicy foods. I omitted the jalapeno all together and used 4 cloves of garlic instead. I also used vegie oil to replace canola, and 1 teaspoon of curry as I did not have cumin. I used frozen yellow corn thawed in microwave 2 minutes. I do think that the next time I will use Orzo instead of rice. I do not like the instant and I thought the Hanmi rice in the cooker stuck together a bit much for my liking. Orzo all the way next time. Other than the few diffrence's mentioned followed the recipe and it was a hit! Thanks!!!! -
This worked out well as a side for Recipe #293542. I did make a few changes, I left out the oil completely to make it more healthy, and i left out the vinegar and brown sugar. Still, it was really flavorful and moist, I didn't miss the oil at all. I would certainly make this dish again.
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Overall I think this dish is great and a good way to jazz up the regular sidedish dilemma. I did change a few things as we do not have a taste for hot or spicy foods. I omitted the jalapeno all together and used 4 cloves of garlic instead. I also used vegie oil to replace canola, and 1 teaspoon of curry as I did not have cumin. I used frozen yellow corn thawed in microwave 2 minutes. I do think that the next time I will use Orzo instead of rice. I do not like the instant and I thought the Hanmi rice in the cooker stuck together a bit much for my liking. Orzo all the way next time. Other than the few diffrence's mentioned followed the recipe and it was a hit! Thanks!!!!
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