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Rice and fresh spinach salad

Spinach is usually eaten cooked. Though seen less often, it can also be eaten raw, like in this salad where it is combined with rice, crunchy radishes and tinned tuna.

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Last modified on: January 29^th 2020

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 2 cups cooked rice
2 1 ½ tablespoon radishes
3 1 ¹⁄₃ cup fresh spinach
4 ½ cup tuna in oil
5 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Start to finish
27 min.	27 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Put 2 cups cooked rice into a salad bowl. Break up any lumps gently with your fingers.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Add 1 ½ tablespoon radishes, sliced into rounds.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Prepare 1 ¹⁄₃ cup fresh spinach. Do not cook, but dry the leaves and shred.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Add to the bowl.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Then add the ½ cup tuna in oil.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Finish by adding 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette). Mix well and your spinach and rice salad is ready.

Remarks

The stated amounts are for guidance, so do adapt these to suit your taste and what you have to hand.

When using spinach raw, it is better to use the youngest leaves that are still tender or, best of all, "baby" spinach, if you can get it.

Keeping

1 or 2 days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,219 Kcal or 5,104 Kj	34 gr	32 gr	107 gr
61 %	13 %	3 %	16 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
153 Kcal or 641 Kj	4 gr	4 gr	13 gr
8 %	2 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
305 Kcal or 1,277 Kj	9 gr	8 gr	27 gr
15 %	3 %	1 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Fish, Sulfites, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 2.55 €
Per person : 0.64 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked rice: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Montagnon rice, Madras rice, Glazed mushrooms with plain rice, Rice and zucchini salad with paprika, Grilled fillet of salmon with corn-salad cream, ... All
	Fresh spinach: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, Chilli chicken and spinach gratin, How to prepare spinach, Pistachio and spinach pesto, Baby spinach salad, ... All
	Tuna in oil: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Rice and purple-sprouting broccoli salad, Cornouaillaise salad, Spring courgette and tuna salad, Leek and tuna loaf, Gribouille dressing, ... All
	Radishes: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Crunchy salad, Pan bagnat, Lemony chicken and radish salad, Red cabage salad with toasted almonds, Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad, ... All

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