Name: Rainbow rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2 big kids or 4 small
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100g basmati rice long grain rice or brown rice; 1small red pepper deseeded and finely chopped; ½ cucumber deseeded and finely chopped; 1large carrot grated; 6 dried apricots chopped; 2 tbsp toasted pumpkin seed or sunflower seeds; 2 tbsp olive oil; ½ orange juice only

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Rainbow rice

Lesley Waters

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Serves 2 big kids or 4 small

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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This colourful salad is a good way of getting lots of veggies and seeds into your childrens diet

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100g basmati rice

long grain rice or brown rice
1small red pepper

deseeded and finely chopped
½ cucumber

deseeded and finely chopped
1large carrot

grated
6 dried apricots

chopped
2 tbsp toasted pumpkin seed

or sunflower seeds
2 tbsp olive oil
½ orange

juice only

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Nutrition: nutrition per serving (2)

kcal450
fat19g
saturates3g
carbs64g
sugars0g
fibre6g
protein10g
salt0.07g

low

Method

step 1

Cook the rice as per pack instructions. Drain, rinse and drain again. Mix with the red pepper, cucumber, grated carrot, dried apricots and toasted pumpkin seeds. Drizzle over olive oil and the orange juice.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2005

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