recipe: Warm Brown Rice & Spinach and Lentil Salad

This week was chaos, really. The pasta meal has been discarded and I will post this one which we both really liked and I am hoping I can get on track with our meals next week....no promises though...

for 4 main meals or around 6 serves as a side:

1 cup long grain brown rice, 2 garlic cloves crushed, 2 tbs olive oil, 3 tea spoons Dijon Mustard, 1 tbs balsamic vinegar, 1 good handfull of baby spinach ( or baby spinach & rocket salad mixture like I used), 3 spring onions thinly sliced, 1x 400g can brown lentils rinsed, 1/2 cup mint leaves crushed, salt & pepper

1. Cook the rice in salted water.
2. Mix the garlic cloves, mustard, oil and vinegar in a bowl. 2. Wash the spinach and rinse the lentils. Mix them in a bowl. Add the onions and mint.
3. When the rice is cooked, drain and rinse. Add to the salad mixture.
4. Mix all the ingredients, add the mustard sauce and you are ready to go. Its a really quick, healthy meal that actually makes you feel quite full for a long time and it works well both as a main course or a side.