Healthy rice recipe for 2 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has brown basmati rice, green bean, cucumber, spring onion, mint, lemon, beetroot, apple, red onion, walnut half and balsamic vinegar.
Green rice with beetroot & apple salsa
Course: Healthy rice
Servings
2
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Red Onion: 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- Spring Onion: 1/2 bunch spring onions (about 5), sliced
- Mint: 1/3 pack mint, chopped, plus extra leaves to serve
- Beetroot: 1 cooked beetroot, diced
- Green Bean: 140g fine green beans
- Lemon: juice 1/2 lemon
- Cucumber: 1/2 small cucumber, finely diced
- Balsamic Vinegar: 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Apple: 1 small apple, cored and diced
- Brown Basmati Rice: 85g brown basmati rice
- Walnut Half: 25g walnut halves, roughly broken
Directions
- Boil the rice for 20 mins, then add the green beans and cook 5 mins more until both are just tender. Drain and leave to cool slightly before stirring in the cucumber, spring onions, mint and lemon juice.
- Meanwhile, stir all the salsa ingredients together.
- Spoon the rice onto plates and serve with the salsa, scattered with a few extra mint leaves.
