Wholefood Summer Salad
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Servings
- Serves 4
Free-from
Gluten/Wheat, Dairy, Nuts, Sugar, SoyaDiet Specific
Low GL/GI, Omega Rich, High FibreDish
- Salads
Difficulty
- Easy
This is a perfect summer salad for work, on the go, barbeques and much more! packed full of flavour with a simple homemade pesto, you won't be able to put it down
First set some brown rice and puy lentils to soak over night in the same bowl and with plenty of water, then rinse the next day when beginning to prepare the salad
Boil the brown rice and lentils for 20 minutes, add in the quinoa and allow to continue boiling for another 20 minutes (40 minutes in total) then drain and leave to cool
Gently fry some onions and garlic in a little olive oil until they are soft and slightly browned and combine them into the grain mixture
Finely dice the peppers and halve the olives also adding them into the mixture with the petit pois
For the homemade pesto dressing, finely chop some basil and grind to a paste with 3tbps olive oil, and the juice from a lemon and a lime
Gently combine the mixture with the pesto, season and serve chilled
- 1/2 cup Brown Rice
- 1/2 cup Puy Lentils
- 1/2 cup Quinoa
- 1 Large Onion
- 2 Cloves Garlic
- 1 Red Pepper
- 1 Yellow Pepper
- Handful of Green Olives
- 1/2 cup Petit Pois
- 1 Lemon
- 1 Lime
- Lots of Basil
- Sea salt and Black pepper to season
