Green rice with beetroot & apple salsa

• brown basmati rice↗85g g
• fine green beans↗140g g
• small cucumber↗½

  finely diced

• spring onions↗½ bunch

  (about 5), sliced

• mint↗⅓ pack

  chopped, plus extra leaves to serve

• lemon↗juice ½

  juice ½

• cooked beetroot↗1

  diced

• small apple↗1

  cored and diced

• small red onion↗1

  finely chopped

• walnut halves↗25g g

  roughly broken

• balsamic vinegar↗1 tbsp tbsp

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Boil the rice for 20 mins, then add the green beans and cook 5 mins more until both are just tender. Drain and leave to cool slightly before stirring in the cucumber, spring onions, mint and lemon juice.

2. 2

   Meanwhile, stir all the salsa ingredients together.

3. 3

   Spoon the rice onto plates and serve with the salsa, scattered with a few extra mint leaves.