Lotus foods provides a fabulous organic forbidden rice product.  Our local market, Star market provides this great tasting rice, in the Wild Harvest section. Lotusfoods.com is a great place to check out a wide array of unusual rice products and interesting recipes too.

Ingredients:

2 cup Forbidden rice, cooked

1 red pepper, diced

1 jalapeno pepper, diced

1 cup shredded carrots

½ cup shredded broccoli

½ cup water chestnuts, sliced

2 green onions, sliced

3 TB. Garlic Chili Paste (found in Asian section of grocery store)

3 TB. Reduced sodium Tamari soy sauce

2 TB. Rice vinegar

2 TB. Sesame oil

2 TB. Olive oil

• Toss rice, peppers, carrots, broccoli, water chestnuts and green onions in medium size bowl.
• Add warm cooked rice.
• Whisk together garlic chili paste, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil and olive oil.
• Drizzle dressing over rice and vegetable and fold gently to blend.
• This salad is great warm or cold.  Add vegetables close to serving time, as the purple color of the rice will make the veggies purple too!