Kūmara and mandarin rice salad

Rice salad with a Kiwi twist

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Serves

5 - 6

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Don't be afraid of leftover rice, this salad is a great way to use it up if you've cooked too much. Tossed with mandarins and roasted kumara, it's a sweet salad that helps use up what you have - we purposely roast extra kumara so we can have this salad later in the week.

As a side dish, it's great when topped with grilled lamb shoulder chops or even slices of tender bolar roast and as a bonus, the Vitamin C from the citrus helps with absorbing iron.

This recipe is courtesy of 5+ A Day.

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Ingredients

Salad
  • 4 mandarins

    peeled and sliced
  • 3 medium kūmarai

    scrubbed and diced
  • 1 red onion

    sliced
  • 3 handfuls baby spinach leaves

  • 1 handful chopped fresh parsley

  • cooked white rice

    cooled
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil

Dressing
  • juice of 1 mandarin

  • ⅓ cup olive oil

  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard

  • to taste white pepper

Method

1

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2

Spread the kūmara on a baking tray and sprinkle with olive oil. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes until tender. Set aside to cool.

3

In a large bowl, place all the salad ingredients.

4

In a small bowl, combine dressing ingredients and sprinkle over the salad. Toss gently to combine.