Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Rice Salad- Indo-Chinese Style

Salads are quick and easy dishes.Earlier the assumption was it was just veggies with an oily dressing or 'ghaas poos' (grass in Hindi)as some may put it. But you can definitely make a salad healthy and interesting,and even get the kids addicted to  it.These days we find several things -raw or cooked -added to the salads and rather than being just a 'healthy-but-to-be-ignored' side it has come out and started hogging the limelight even in parties.The several salads you see these days are proof of this.

Basically you whip up a salad when you find there is no enough time to cook an elaborate meal or you want some free time. But you make sure it is healthy as well. Atleast thats what I aim for.You add lots of veggies and also rice and it becomes a whole meal. I tried out Chinese style Rice Salad from Rajani of MyKitchenTrials with whom I am paired with this Blog HopWednesday, by Radhika and guess what, I had lots of free time in my hand and it was healthy and delicious. Its like -Killing two birds with one stone -don't you think? :D

Ingredients:

Cooked Rice: atleast 1/2 cup (preferably Basmati)

Onion: 1 small chopped
Carrot: 1 small
Bell Pepper: 1 small
Cucumber: 1 small 
Tomato: 1 small
Frozen/Fresh Green Peas and Sweet Corn: handfuls
Salt,Pepper & Soy Sauce: as per taste

Preparation:
Chop all the veggies into small bite sized pieces.Optionally blanch the veggies-except cucumber- for a minute of two after chopping. 

Put them in a bowl along with cooked rice adding salt,pepper and soy sauce. Keep salt to minimum as soy sauce has salt in it.

Combine gently without breaking the rice grains. Do the taste test and adjust the seasoning. Keep aside for 15 minutes for the flavours to blend and warm for a minute or two just before serving.


Hearty salad. A full meal with less cooking time. A favourite for all seasons as well.The weather here makes me feel lazy to cook and it sorts of drags. This one solved the problem and was ready in about 15 minutes or so. In summer,rather than spending hot and long hours in the kitchen, this salad seems perfect as well. Add more cooling veggies like cucumber and you have a winner in your hands. Healthy salad and a comforting meal this is.Surely a keeper recipe.


11 Comments:

Sumee said...

That looks like healthier version chinese fried rice. Nice.

Reshmi Mahesh said...

Healthy yummy salad..

Priya Suresh said...

Salad looks colourful,flavourful and yummy..

Simplyfood said...

This looks delicious and tasty.

Cham said...

I haven't made salad with rice, sounds good with leftover rice!

Kalyani said...

looks good ! do link it to my ongoing events on Global Food and Flavours of China if possible.. Glad to run the blog hop with you too !


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Radhika said...

Wonderful choice of recipe and thanks for sharing. Btw tried making tutti fruti bread into buns and my kids went crazy over it. Thank you Swetha.

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Tina said...

Yummy yummy..

Unknown said...

Colorful looking rice. LOOks yummy.

vaishali sabnani said...

this is really healthy...looks grt too...

Anonymous said...

This is a favorite salad of mine, used to make this often. Thank you for trying this recipe and hope you enjoyed making this :-)

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