Spiced chicken and rice salad
This is a great salad for a summer lunch and a brilliant dish for a packed lunch. Keep cool until you are ready to eat.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium red onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 yellow or orange pepper, deseeded and cut into roughly 2cm chunks
- 100 g broccoli, cut into small florets and halved
- 100 g easy-cook wholegrain or brown rice (such as Uncle Ben’s)
- 2 tsp medium curry powder
- 100 g cooked and cooled skinless chicken meat
- 100 g red seedless grapes, halved
- ½ cucumber, about 100g, cut into small chunks
- 25 g toasted flaked almonds
- bunch fresh coriander, leaves roughly chopped
- For the dressing:
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 tsp medium curry powder
- 1 garlic clove peeled and crushed
- sea salt and black pepper
- 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil