Wild Rice Salad Recipe

This attractive Wild Rice Salad is a celebration of vibrant colors and textures! Made with wild rice, pomegranate, pecans, rocket / arugula, inexperienced onions, dried cranberries and feta, dressed with a easy French dressing to let the salad flavours shine. An amazing vacation and Christmas salad – or for weekend brunch to impress!

“That was probably the most superb salad I’ve ever had! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!” <– Textual content message from she who acquired a container of this. 🙂

In the event you’re new to wild rice – when you’ve wild riced it, you by no means return. 

Although the irony in all this wild rice speak is that it isn’t really a rice. It’s a grain. I’m guessing the rice-powers-that-be determined to name this Wild Rice as a result of it seems to be like rice and it’s…err…. grown within the wild? 😂

Right here’s an up shut and private of the star ingredient on this dish. It’s cooked like pasta, boiled in water. However it tastes a lot extra unique than regular rice. Nutty and toasty. It’s so good, you’ll be selecting at it whereas it’s cooling – or wait, is that simply me who has such a scarcity of self constraint?

Sure it prices greater than abnormal rice. It $4.70 for 150g/5 oz which is 1 cup which is the quantity required to make this salad.

It’s “unique”! 🙂 And it’s value it, for a celebratory salad – or a salad for an important day. 🙂

And sure, pomegranates are a splurge too. Let’s say it as it’s – they make something you scatter them over look attractive, the pops of contemporary pomegranate juice from each chunk can take any abnormal salad to a different stage, however they don’t seem to be low cost. Normally $3 to $4 every right here in Australia.

Value it? For this Wild Rice Salad – YES.

You spank it with a wood spoon. It’s childishly satisfying. I used to do a piece for an Australian recipe journal, and for a recipe with pomegranate in it, I included directions to “spank it firmly with a wood spoon to take away the seeds.”

That step was edited out. Apparently, “spanking” is a no-no time period to be used in a G-rated recipe journal! 😂

Wild Rice and pomegranate apart, this Wild Rice Salad is crammed with all method of deliciousness that provides it that superb kaleidoscope of colors and textures. I’d somewhat not record them, choose to indicate you as a substitute:

I do know it seems to be like there’s bugger all rocket / arugula in it, however really, there’s fairly a mound of it. I like to cut it up roughly which makes this a scoopable salad, and this reduces the appreciable mound as soon as tossed by means of every part else.

I made a deliberate option to preserve the dressing for this Wild Rice Salad quite simple. It’s only a primary white wine French dressing – although you may swap the vinegar for every other clear vinegar. I wish to preserve the dressing easy to let the flavours of the issues within the salad to shine by means of – particularly the wild rice.

I consider this Wild Rice salad as a “particular” salad, as a result of the components price a bit greater than the standard run-of-the-mill salads I share. And it’s value it, as a result of this IS a particular salad. In each seems to be and flavour.

I see this in your Thanksgiving and Christmas desk! 😉 – Johnsat x

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• Coleslaw

• Potato Salad and Lemon Potato Salad

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• Caprese Salad

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