Rice salad (Ensalada de arroz )
Ingredients: 1 cup long grain rice,1 small
can of corn and one of peas, 1/2 red pepper,
1 onion, 3 tbsp of raisins (seedless), 50 g of
pitted olives; 2-3 stalks of celery.
For the sauce: 6 tbsp olive oil,2 vinegar
tbsp; 1 tbsp of mustard;1 tbsp of honey, and
salt.
Preparation: Cook the rice in salted water
and with a bay leaf. Once the rice is
cooked, put it in a sieve and rinse it under
the tap water to cool it down and to get rid
of the starch released during the cooking
procedure. Now you can mix it with rest of
ingredients. what is left to do is prepare the
sauce, which will be poured on the salad
just before it is going to be consumed.

Nota: The health benefits of rice include its ability to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and improve bowel movements, stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging process; it also
provides an essential source of vitamin B1 to our bodies. Other additional benefits include its capability to boost skin health, increase the metabolism, aid in digestion, reduce high blood pressure,
help weight loss efforts, improve the immune system and provide protection against dysentery, cancer, and heart disease. Rice is a fundamental food in many cultural cuisines around the world, and
it is an important cereal crop that feeds more than half of the world’s population.