Rice Salad Recipe:
Mango, Salmon and Brown Rice Salad

You'll need to plan ahead to make this dish. You'll need cooked and cooled rice, and you'll need to let the completed salad refrigerate for a couple of hours before you eat it. I like to make this in the evening to eat the following day.

This recipe is easily doubled. You might want to make lots; the leftovers are great for lunch!

• in the cupboard
  • canned salmon
  • short grain brown rice
  • cider vinegar
  • pepper

• in the fridge or freezer
  • bottled lime juice

Buy these fresh ingredients

• a mango
• lettuce

Get out your equipment

• Essential
  • a can opener
  • a cutting board and sharp knife
  • a large bowl
  • measuring cups and spoons

• Nice to have but not necessary
  • a rice cooker (if not, use a saucepan)
  
  
  

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  The recipe

  1 can (14 oz/418 g) salmon, drained and flaked

  1 large mango, peeled and cubed

  2 cups cooked brown rice, cooled

  3 Tbsp/45 mL lime juice

  1 Tbsp cider vinegar

  1/4 tsp/1 mL black pepper

  In a large bowl, combine all ingredients.
  Refrigerate for several hours.
  To serve, place a lettuce leaf on each plate and heap it with rice salad.
  
  

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  Substitutions
  • Use your favourite rice in place of the short grain brown. (I like brown basmati. White rice works, too.)

  • Use your favourite vinegar in place of the cider vinegar.

  • Use fresh cooked salmon instead of canned.

  • Use freshly squeezed lime juice instead of bottled.

  Ideas for making this recipe your own

  • Add other fresh or canned fruits. How about some chunks of pineapple or papaya?

  • Experiment with other citrus juices in place of lime juice.

  Tips

  • A rice cooker makes cooking rice very easy! Once I tried a rice cooker, I never went back to cooking rice in a pot. Just follow the rice cooker instructions (which will be something like "Add rice and water. Press the lever.") That's all there is to making perfect rice every time.

  • Be sure that your mango is ripe. It should have a pleasant fragrance and should indent slightly when you press it with your thumb.

  • To slow down a perfectly ripe mango from ripening further, put it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.

  
  
  

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  Menu suggestion

  Serve this dish with

  • Chicken with Lime-Ginger Sauce

  • steamed broccoli

  • a green salad
  
  
  

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  If you enjoy this rice salad recipe, you may also like these other salad recipes:
  • Caesar Salad
  • Greek Salad
    
    

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