Grain Salad
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
Ingredients
- 4 cups chilled leftover cooked brown rice
- 4 ounces crumbled feta cheese
- 1 seedless cucumber diced
- 2 pints cherry tomatoes quartered
- 1 can garbanzo beans drained and rinsed
- ½ a red onion peeled and thinly sliced or diced
- 1 cup fresh herbs use about 2/3 parsley, but add in some fresh dill and mint for maximum wow!
- 1 lemon juiced
- ⅓ cup garlic olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly 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.
Nutrition
Calories: 263kcalCarbohydrates: 32gProtein: 6gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 13mgSodium: 472mgPotassium: 471mgFiber: 4gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 1313IUVitamin C: 46mgCalcium: 115mgIron: 2mg
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