Recipe: Delicious Brown Rice & Seaweed Salad

Brown Rice & Seaweed Salad. Brown rice is a whole grain rice with the inedible outer hull removed. White rice is the same grain without the hull, the bran layer, and the cereal germ. Anyone suffering from gluten intolerance can easily fit brown rice in their diet as it is gluten-free.

The complete milling and polishing that converts. Slow and low is the way to go. Yes, it takes a little longer than white rice, but it's not any harder. You can cook Brown Rice & Seaweed Salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Brown Rice & Seaweed Salad

1. You need 1 cup of brown/wild rice (I used barley and millet).
2. It's 21/2 cups of water.
3. You need 1 cup of pumpkin seeds.
4. You need 1 Tbsp of soy sauce.
5. You need 1-2 of spring onions.
6. It's 3 Tbsp of finely sliced pickled sushi ginger or grated fresh ginger.
7. Prepare 3 Tbsp of mirin or lemon juice.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of sesame oil.
9. You need 2 Tbsp of oil.
10. Prepare 1 Tbsp of soy sauce,.
11. You need of salt and pepper.
12. It's of sliced nori (seaweed sheets).
13. You need of Frozen peas (if desired).

We have a few hacks to bump up flavor and ensure fluffy results. Uncooked brown rice can be stored in the cupboard, but is best used within a few months of If you don't cook with brown rice very often, storing it in the fridge will help keep it fresh for longer. Seasoning your brown rice makes this already yummy food into a delicious addition to a number of dishes! While there is no "right way" to season brown rice, there are a few tried-and-true methods.

Brown Rice & Seaweed Salad step by step

1. Cook your rice or barley (I used a rice cooker).
2. While rice is cooking roast your pumpkin seeds. Once these are roasted transfer to a bowl and pour over the soy sauce, mix and set aside to cool..
3. Cook your peas.
4. Combine the mirin or lemon juice, sesame oil, and soy sauce, spring onion.
5. Stir all the ingredients into the rice and half the pumpkin seeds. Transfer to a serving dish..
6. Just before serving, stir in most of the pumpkin seeds and half the nori. Scatter the remaining pumpkin seeds and nori over the top of the rice..

Brown rice is good for your brain and nervous system. It is rich in vitamin B and accelerates the metabolism in the brain. Brown rice's health benefits are partially due to the way it is prepared, according to the George Mateljan Foundation for the World's Healthiest Foods, which promotes the benefits of healthy eating. Leftover brown rice is reborn in this chicken fried rice with peppers and onions. Brown rice retains all the good stuff—the healthy bran and germ, which are removed from white rice.