Roast Butternut, Biltong and Brown Rice Salad

Ingredients

  • 1 ⅓ cups uncooked brown rice
  • 1 small butternut squash, peeled and chopped
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • Salt
  • Ground pepper
  • ½ cup finely sliced biltong
  • 3 tbsp onion roasted seeds (or plain roasted seeds)
  • 1 cup cubed or ribboned cucumber
  • 2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley or mint
  • 100 g feta cheese (optional)
Roast Butternut, Biltong and Brown Rice Salad

Photo: Cswreeve / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5

Procedure

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C
  2. Cook brown rice according to packet instructions.
  3. Drain and set aside.
  4. Toss butternut, olive oil and seasoning into a roasting pan.
  5. Roast butternut until cooked through and slightly charred.
  6. Stir through rice, butternut, bilton, roasted seeds, cucumber, feta and herbs.
  7. Serve tossed with your favourite vinaigrette, or honey mustard dressing.

Notes, tips, and variations

  • Leave out the rice to make a good tortilla filling.

Source

Recipe published by http://www.Monkeylicious.net under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License, retrieved 2010-05-17 from http://www.monkeylicious.net/recipes/Roast_Butternut__Biltong_and_Brown_Rice_Salad. Monkeylicious.net has given permission for it to be reprinted here under the wikibooks license (permission obtained 2010-05-17, by email, cswreeve).