Rice Salad Amongst Nuts & Cherries

December 8, 2012

After a span of days eating dinner out in addition to about, Cindy in addition to I took wages of a gratis Sat flush to orbit upwards something vaguely well for yous at home. We headed to nevertheless some other Ottolenghi salad, this rice salad alongside nuts in addition to sour cherries.

We ended upwards alongside a simpler version of the recipe (not to the lowest degree because regular Ottolenghi salads, but it was but the sort of fresh, well for yous repast nosotros were looking for.

Rice salad alongside nuts & cherries

(adapted from this Ottolenghi recipe)

270g basmati rice

100mL olive fossil oil

150g quinoa

60g almonds

70g pino nuts

ii onions

ii cloves garlic

60mL sunflower fossil oil

20g parsley

15g basil

10g tarragon

i loving cup mixed light-green leaves

80g dried cherries

zest in addition to juice of i lemon

salt

Place the basmati rice inward a medium saucepan, stir inward i tablespoon olive fossil oil in addition to one-half a teaspoon salt. Pour 400mL boiling H2O over it, encompass in addition to orbit on really depression oestrus for xx minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat, accept the lid off, lay a teatowel over the saucepan in addition to supplant the lid. After 10 minutes accept off the lid in addition to teatowel in addition to allow the rice to cool completely.

Bring H2O to the boil inward a modest saucepan in addition to add together quinoa, orbit for ix minutes in addition to thence drain.

Roughly chop the almonds. Heat i tablespoon olive fossil oil inward a frypan alongside a pinch of salt. Add the almonds in addition to pino nuts, in addition to orbit gently until the pino nuts are golden, 3-4 minutes. Set the nuts aside.

Peel the onions in addition to spell them into rings; trounce the garlic Heat the sunflower fossil oil inward the frypan that was used for the nuts, add together the onions in addition to orbit on low-medium oestrus until soft in addition to browned at the edges, almost 25 minutes.

Roughly chop the parsley, basil in addition to tarragon. Grate the zest off the lemon in addition to squelch out the juice (you desire almost 60mL).

Gently toss together all the ingredients - rice, quinoa, remaining 60mL olive oil, nuts, onions, herbs, greens, cherries, lemon juice in addition to zest. Allow it all to residue in addition to mingle for 10 minutes or to a greater extent than earlier serving.