Spiced chicken and rice salad

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Calories
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.
Course:
Salad
Servings: 3 people
Ingredients
- 1tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium red onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 yellow or orange pepper, deseeded and cut into roughly 2cm chunks
- 100g broccoli, cut into small florets and halved
- 100g easy-cook wholegrain or brown rice (such as Uncle Ben’s)
- 2tsp medium curry powder
- 100g cooked and cooled skinless chicken meat
- 100g red seedless grapes, halved
- ½ cucumber, about 100g, cut into small chunks
- 25g toasted flaked almonds
- bunch fresh coriander, leaves roughly chopped
- For the dressing:
- 1tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1tsp caster sugar
- 1tsp medium curry powder
- 1 garlic clove peeled and crushed
- sea salt and black pepper
- 3tbsp extra virgin olive oil