Mexican Bean and Rice Salad
Recipe
Serves: 4 people | Prep time: 20 minutes
Mexican | Dairy Free | Vegetarian | Vegan | Salad
Ingredients
- 1x 400g tin red kidney beans
- 1 x 400g tin mixed beans
- 1 x 340g tin sweetcorn
- 1 x 220g sachet bulgur, quinoa and wholegrain rice
- 1 x 150g pack sweet mini peppers
- 1 x red onion
- 1 x green chilli
- 1 x clove garlic
- 5g fresh coriander
- 5g fresh parsley
- 40ml rapeseed oil
- 1 x tsp caster sugar
- Sea salt and black pepper
Method
- Open the two tins of beans and the sweetcorn and put into a salad bowl
- Cook the rice as instructions on the pack and put the warm rice in the bowl
- Peel, halve and finely chop the red onion and add to the salad
- Cut the peppers in half lengthways – discard any seeds and chop finely and add to the salad
- Peel the garlic and mince
- Cut the chilli in half lengthways and discard any seeds – unless you want a very hot dressing – and chop finely
- Mix the garlic, chilli, rapeseed oil and sugar together and season with salt and pepper and mix well
- Toss this dressing through the salad
- Chop the coriander and parsley finely and sprinkle over the salad