Fruit and Nut Salad with Rice
This fruit and nut salad combines sweet fruits, crunchy nuts and seeds, rice and lettuce for a colorful, crunchy side dish that's full of flavor! Serves 3 as a main or 4-5 as a side dish.
Servings: 3 servings
Calories: 384kcal
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup rice white, brown or wild rice mix
- ¼ cup pistachios not roasted, unsalted, shelled, crushed
- ¼ cup macadamia nuts halves or crushed
- ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
- 1 apple de-cored, diced, red or green
- ¼ cup pomegranate seeds
- 2 cups romaine lettuce diced
- 2 tablespoon fresh parsley diced
For the dressing
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar or white distilled vinegar optional
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 garlic clove optional, minced or finely diced
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper optional
Instructions
- Cook the rice to package instructions and set aside to cool.
- Add the pistachios, macadamia nuts and pumpkin seeds to a dry skillet and toast for 3-4 minutes to bring out their flavor. Set aside to cool.
- Make the dressing by combining the olive oil, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, optional garlic, salt and optional black pepper and whisking together.
- Dice the apple, romaine lettuce and parsley.
- Combine the fruits, nuts, rice, lettuce and parsley in your serving bowl. Drizzle over the dressing and toss to combine. Season to taste preference.
Notes
- Leave the rice to cool before combining with the other ingredients.
- Aside from parsley, cilantro works nicely in this salad.
- Make sure the pistachios and macadamia nuts aren't salted or roasted.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- garlic and apple cider vinegar, which score 1.
- black pepper, which scores 2.
Nutrition
Calories: 384kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 0.003g | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 413mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 3014IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 52mg | Iron: 2mg
