Colourful Brown Rice Salad

This is a great salad - serve it warm or cold!

It is also great at Xmas, with the festive colours of the red and green capsicum.
Simply, Everybody loves this salad!!!!

INGREDIENTS
2 Cup Brown Rice
Salt to taste
3 Spring Onions, finely chopped
1 Red Capsicum, cored seeded & chopped
1 Green Capsicum, cored seeded & chopped
3/4 Cup Raisins or Currants
75g Cashews, raw or roasted and roughly chopped
2 Tbsps Parsley or Coriander, chopped 
3 Tbsps of Soy Sauce dressing (or to taste)

Soy Sauce Dressing
1/2 Cup Oil
2 Tbsps Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
2 Tsps Sugar
1 Garlic clove, crushed or finely chopped
1 cm Ginger Root, finely chopped
Salt & Pepper to taste.

METHOD

To make the soy sauce dressing, put all sauce ingredients into a jar with a lid and shake well to blend.

Cook rice via the absorption method, according the packet instructions. Rinse, drain well & cool

Place the rice in a bowl and add remaining ingredients.

Toss thoroughly before serving.

10 minutes before going to serve, add the soy sauce dressing to the rice salad, toss well, then serve.