wild rice & apple salad

ingredients:

• 1 cup uncooked brown rice
• 1/2 cup uncooked wild rice
• 3 cups water
• 1 Tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 Tbsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped apple
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 3/4 cup raisins
• salt to taste
• optional: additional oil such as flax, hemp or walnut
  

method:

Combine the brown & wild rice, water, oil and cinnamon in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until all water is absorbed and rice is soft.

Transfer to a bowl, toss in remaining ingredients.

Add salt to taste and any additional essential oil if desired.

Serve warm or cold.




Source: "Vegetarian Cooking for Good Health", Gary Null

cran-orange & grains salad

Call me crazy, but when I created this recipe I became so hooked on it that I had to have it available in my fridge for the next 4 months! I don't make it quite as often now, but it always seems to be the first thing that disappears from the kitchen - yes, even before those crazy amazing chocolate almond cookies. (I make those as decoys for my hubby so there's more of this salad for me!)

If you love the combination of cranberry-orange even half as much as I do, then this recipe is for you! Haven't tried kamut or spelt before? They take a little longer to cook than brown rice, but yield a wonderful moist and chewy texture.

ingredients:

• 1 cup each dry kamut & spelt grains
• 1/2 - 3/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 - 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
• zest of 1 orange

dressing:

• juice of 1 large orange, or 1 1/2 small - med oranges
  
• 4 Tbsp flax oil
• 1 scant Tbsp vegan mayonnaise or soy yogurt
  
• salt to taste
• optional: 1 tsp honey

method:

Cook kamut and spelt grains in about 4 cups water.

When cooked, transfer grains to a bowl and add the cranberries, orange zest and sunflower seeds.

In a small bowl combine dressing ingredients. Pour over grains and mix well.



Recipe by: Trudel; Aug. 2006

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cran-orange & grains salad
wild rice & apple salad