Tropical Rice Salad
Home » COOK » Recipes »This Tropical Rice Salad is a colorful mix of different flavours and textures, made with ingredients like wild rice, peppers, mangoes, and macadamia nuts.
It is a tasty salad to eat on its own, or as a side for barbecued meat and fish. It is also a great salad to take to a potluck or on a summer picnic.
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Tropical Rice Salad
In the spring and summer months, salads are my thing! I absolutely love making them and thinking of different combinations to put together.
I made this Tropical Rice Salad as a side dish to slow-cooked kalua pork.
The base of this salad is of course rice. I used a long grain and wild rice mix as the wild rice gives an almost nutty flavour and texture. Once cooked, I spread it out onto a baking sheet so that it would cool down quickly.
I used two tropical fruits in this salad – mango and pineapple. I actually had canned (in juice) fruit in my cupboard that I needed to use up, but I have made this salad using fresh fruit too.
Bell peppers are another ingredient – I used orange and red, as that is what I had, but use any colour you like.
I also added a kick with some fresh red chilli peppers – but you can leave this out if you wish.
I added some chopped macadamia nuts and peanuts to add another texture dimension.
The dressing was made with peanut oil, light soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and pineapple juice. I used the leftover juice from the canned pineapple and topped it up with some from a carton. The dressing is then simply poured over and stirred through.
This salad is delicious and feels like a mouthful of sunshine with all the tropical flavours mixed together. There were leftovers after serving this with the kalua pork, which I sealed in airtight jars and had for lunch for the next few days.
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Tropical Rice Salad
Tfull of tropical flavors!
Ingredients
- 500g/17oz long grain and wild rice mix
- 250g/8oz pineapple, cut into small bite size pieces
- 250g/8oz mango, cut into small bite size pieces
- 2 bell peppers - red, yellow, or orange, deseeded and cut into small bite size pieces
- 4 spring onions (scallions), finely chopped
- 200g/7oz canned sweetcorn, drained
- 80g/3oz pomegranate seeds
- 1 fresh red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped (optional)
- 50g/2oz macadamia nuts, chopped
- 50g/2oz peanuts, chopped
For the dressing
- 50ml/¼ cup peanut oil
- 50ml/¼ cup light soy sauce
- 180ml/¾ cup pineapple juice
- 1 Tbsp white rice vinegar
Instructions
- Cook the rice according to the package instructions, and leave to cool.
- Mix all of the other ingredients together in a bowl, then add the rice and combine.
- Whisk the dressing ingredients together, then pour over the rice salad. Mix well.
- Refrigerate until serving.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 511Total Fat: 28gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 19gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 1101mgCarbohydrates: 56gFiber: 7gSugar: 21gProtein: 16g
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