Cooking Easy Recipes

Saffron Rice Salad

Servings:
4 Servings
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  • 2 tb White wine vinegar
  • 1 tb Olive oil
  • 2 dr Hot pepper sauce (optional)
  • --Or more, to taste
  • 1 Garlic clove; minced
  • 1/4 ts Ground white pepper
  • 2 1/2 c Cooked rice
  • -(cooked in chicken broth &
  • 1/16 ts Saffron)*
  • -- cooled to room temp.
  • 1/2 c Diced red pepper
  • 1/2 c Diced green pepper
  • 1/4 c Sliced green onions
  • -- including tops
  • 1/4 c Sliced ripe olives
  • Lettuce leaves
Combine vinegar, oil, pepper sauce (if desired), garlic, and white
pepper in large bowl; mix well. Add remaining ingredients except
lettuce; toss lightly. Serve on lettuce leaves.

*Ground turmeric may be substituted.

Each serving provides:
* 198 calories
* 4.0 g. protein
* 2.6 g. fat
* 39.3 g. carbohydrate
* 1.7 g. dietary fiber
* 565 mg. sodium
* 0 mg. cholesterol

Source: "Light, Lean & Low Fat" booklet
Reprinted with permission from USA Rice Council
Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias

File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/lllfrice.zip