Fruity Rice Salad and Orange Vinaigrette

Description

UNCLE BEN’S® Ready Rice® serves as the base for an extremely versatile salad perfectly suited to accompany any meal! The Original Rice can become the Ready Basmati Rice or Whole Grain Brown Rice, dried cranberries can become golden raisins, pecans can become pistachios or walnuts, celery can become water chestnuts or apples! Use your imagination!

Ingredients

  • 1 (8.8 ounce) pouch UNCLE BEN’S® Ready Rice® Original Long Grain
  • ¼ cup sliced celery
  • ¼ cup sweetened dried cranberries (such as Ocean Spray® Craisins®)
  • .063 cup toasted pecans, broken into pieces
  • ¼ cup chopped green onions
  • 1 tablespoon diced red onion
  • 1 tablespoon mayonnaise, or more to taste
  • 2 tablespoons blood orange white balsamic vinegar
  • 4 tablespoons lemon-infused olive oil
  • ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • ½ teaspoon honey
  • 1 small clove garlic, minced
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper to taste

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins

Servings: 4

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