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Festive salad

This festive salad looks fantastic on a buffet table at a party or goes well with grilled/barbecued fish and meat. It can be made with rice, pearl barley, millet, buckwheat, couscous, quinoa or freekeh. I normally make it with brown rice or pearl barley. It's delicious, healthy and easy to make.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting Time 4 hours
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 6 people
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Calories: 1234
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g pearl barley/millet/rice/buckwheat/giant couscous/etc
  • seeds of 1 pomegranate
  • 4 spring onions chopped
  • 1 handful flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped
  • 1 handful mint roughly chopped
  • 2 Tbsp chopped pistachios
  • 2 Tbsp pomegranate molasses
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil

Method
 

  1. Cook the grains according the instructions on the pack.
  2. Meanwhile chop the spring opinions and the herbs.
  3. Drain the grains, let them cool then mix everything together.
  4. Season to taste.