Salad Recipes - Valencian Salad

Ingredients

• 175 g/6 oz/3/4 cup long-grain rice

• 2 oranges, peeled, sliced and cut into quarters

• 1 onion, sliced and separated into rings

• 200 g/7 oz/1 small can pimientos, drained and cut into thin strips

• 12 stuffed green olives, sliced

• 100 g/4 oz/1 cup chorizo sausage, thinly sliced

• 60 ml/4 tbsp olive oil

• 1 garlic clove, crushed

• 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped parsley

• 15 ml/1 tbsp white wine vinegar

• 5 ml/1 tsp clear honey

• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

• Lettuce leaves

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Method:

1. Cook the rice in plenty of boiling salted water until just tender. Drain, rinse with cold water and drain again.

2. Place in a bowl with the oranges, onion, pimientos, half the olives and the chorizo.

3. Blend the oil with the garlic, parsley, vinegar, honey and a little salt and pepper. Pour over the salad and toss well.

4. Pile on to a bed of lettuce and scatter the remaining sliced olives pepper before serving.