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Rice, Pea, Sweetcorn and Red Pepper Salad with a Lime and Honey Dressing

Perfectly cooked, nutty brown rice, sweet petit pois and sweetcorn, crispy red peppers and sliced spring onion swathed in fresh, sweet, lime dressing with a hint of garlic. Soooo good!

Serves 3 - 4

Course Side Dish
Keyword brown rice, Lime and honey dressing, petit pois, red pepper, rice, sweetcorn
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Author Susan

Ingredients

For the salad:

  • 150g brown long grain or basmati rice or use white rice
  • 100g frozen sweet corn
  • 100g frozen petit pois
  • ½ teaspoon fine salt
  • 4 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced
  • 100g/1 red pepper, stem and seeds removed, chopped into small cubes

For the dressing:

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 teaspoons runny honey
  • 3g/1 clove of garlic, peeled and crushed
  • ⅛ teaspoon fine salt
  • ⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Collect together your equipment (see Recipe Notes below) and ingredients.

  2. Prepare and cook rice and vegetables: cook the rice according to the instructions on the packet.

  3. Whilst the rice is cooking, blanch the petit pois and sweetcorn in plenty of salted, boiling water for 1 minute. Drain well, in a sieve or colander, and set aside.

  4. Remove the stem and seeds from the red pepper and chop into small chunks. Trim and finely slice the spring onions.

  5. Make the dressing – peel and crush the garlic and mix thoroughly with the olive oil, lime juice, honey and salt and pepper.

  6. When the rice, sweetcorn and petit pois are cooked and still warm, and the spring onion and red pepper are prepared, mix everything together in a large bowl.

  7. Add the dressing to taste. You may not need it all.

  8. Serve as a side dish.

Recipe Notes

Equipment:

  • kitchen scales and measuring spoons
  • saucepan to cook the rice
  • saucepan to cook the sweetcorn and petit pois
  • chopping board and knife
  • jug/small/dish or jam to mix the dressing
  • garlic crusher
  • reamer 

Serve:

A wonderful accompaniment to Coronation Chicken, as well as my Platinum Jubilee Chicken dish, this dressed rice makes a delicious addition to any barbecue or buffet table. Stir in some coriander, and it also works particularly well with Mexican food.

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