I'm trying out new foods and trying to be more healthy.
SO............... I didn't want the apricots to go to waste and looked up some recipes that I thought I might like to use them up and I found this one that seemed perfect.
It's called "Rainbow Rice".
I love rice salad dishes but I generally buy them ready made from the supermarket, I know, I'm fierce lazy but I honestly didn't know how to go about making them myself.
I'm so happy with how this turned out. It's SOOOOOOOO gorgeous and super easy to make!
SO let's get started
First of all let me apologise for the pics. I took them with my phone and some of them didn't come out too good. (Next time I do any cooking I'll take proper pics, I promise)
First of all here's a list of what you need:
Rice
1 Red Pepper
1 Carrot
1/4 Cucumber
8 Dried Apricots
Sunflower Seeds
Juice from 1/2 an Orange
Olive Oil
That's it.
As I said it's so supereasy to make that I probably don't need to do a step by step but here's goes anyway.
Ok so first boil your rice. I used boil in the bag rice because that's what I had. The original recipe tells you all the different rices you can use but as I had this in the press I said I'd try it out. I left the rice cool down and then put it into the plastic tub that I was going to be storing it in (because I hate lots of washing up :-})
Next chop up your red pepper into really small pieces and add it to the tub with the rice.
Grate your carrot.
Next you need to add the sunflower seeds to the tub with everything else and add in the juice of half an orange and about 1 tablespoonful of olive oil (the recipe says 2 tablespoons but I don't really like the taste of olive oil so I just put in 1 :-)).
Mix everything together in the tub and that's it.
Didn't I tell you it was really simple?
I had it with some fish and lots of salad and some sweet chili sauce (my fave).
Sorry the picture is crap!
I still have more apricots so I'll definitely be making the recipe again and I think I might even add more than 8 to it the next time.
If you want to follow the original recipe I got it at GoodFood.com

that sounds lovely, I'm going to give it a go :) I never toasted stuff in the microwave, I usually either put them in a pot over heat (no oil or anything) and just toss them about, you need to be careful not to burn them though. Or else I put them in the oven on a tray for a few mins. I love dried apricots - you can put them into muffins and cakes too, and I have a mincemeat recipe that i use every year :)
ReplyDeleteHi Sabriel,
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear if you like it. I'm in love with it and would eat it everyday if I had my way. I love that it's so easy to make and I want to try with different types of veg too.
As for the toasting of the seeds I didn't have a clue what to do and googled it. The first thing that came up was how to do it in the microwave so I went with that but if you prefer to do it in the oven (or whatever then work away with that).
I will say the oil made them smell divine but you have to keep a close eye on them coz they can burn quite fast. So put them in for a min or so give them a mix around and then another couple of mins. :-)