Salads and Vegetables: Salads: Happy Health Salad

Try this colorful rice salad.

Author: CalorieKing
Date: August 06, 2009

Suggestions: Cook the rice ahead (the 35-40 minutes 'cooking time' is for the cooking of brown rice; 30 minutes for regular white rice).

Serves: 12 person(s)
Yield: 12 x 1/2 cup servings

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
1/2 cup shredded cabbage
1/2 cup thinly sliced spring onions
2 Tbsp chopped capers (optional)
4 cup cooked brown rice (or white rice)
1 small carrot (3.5 oz)
1 tomato, seeded and diced (3.5 oz)
1/4 cup fat-free French dressing
1 medium cucumber, unpeeled, thinly sliced

Directions:

In a large bowl, combine the celery, cabbage, onions, capers, rice, carrot and tomato.

Moisten the combined salad ingredients by mixing the fat-free French dressing into the salad.

Transfer the salad to a serving platter. Garnish the outside rim of the salad with the thinly sliced cucumber.

Variations:

A little curry powder and some raisins can be added to the salad for an interesting variation. Variations are not included in the nutritional analysis.