This delightful chilled Grain Salad is chock full of nutty brown rice, herbs, garbanzo beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, feta cheese, and red onions with a simple olive oil and lemon juice dressing. Make a batch of this to stash in the fridge and lunch is in the bag all week!
Equipment
1 mixing bowl
1 spoon
1 knife
1 cutting board
Ingredients
4cupschilled leftover cooked brown rice
4ouncescrumbled feta cheese
1seedless cucumberdiced
2pintscherry tomatoesquartered
1can garbanzo beansdrained and rinsed
½a red onionpeeled and thinly sliced or diced
1cupfresh herbsuse about 2/3 parsley, but add in some fresh dill and mint for maximum wow!
1lemonjuiced
⅓cupgarlic olive oil
1teaspoonkosher salt
1/2teaspoonfreshly ground black pepper
Instructions
Add the brown rice, feta cheese, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, garbanzo beans, and onions to a large mixing bowl and mix to combine evenly.
Add the herbs, lemon juice, garlic olive oil, kosher salt, and black pepper and toss gently to distribute everything evenly.
You can serve this immediately, but it benefits from at least an hour in the refrigerator to allow the flavours to meld and marry.
Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.