Brown rice salad with lentils carrot and parsley
Brown rice and brown lentils are cooked together before adding raw grated carrot and plenty of chopped parsley. This healthy brown rice salad is great eaten on its own for lunch or to accompany a roast or barbeque dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice
- ½ cup brown lentils
- 2 carrots coarsely grated
- 2 handfuls parsley chopped
- a handful pine nuts toasted
Dressing
- 1 lemon juice
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 clove garlic finely minced
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Rinse rice and lentils together. Put them in a sauce pan with 3 cups of water. Bring to boil on high heat. When it starts to boil, turn the heat down and simmer for 25-30 minutes until the rice and lentils are soft and the water absorbed.
- Mix all the ingredients of the dressing.
- When the rice and lentils are cooked, place them in a sieve to drain excess water and put them in a bowl. Mix dressing thoroughly while hot and let it cool.
- When the rice mixture comes to room temperature, mix carrots, parsley and toasted pine nuts.
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