Green rice with beetroot & apple salsa

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Ingredients

85g brown basmati rice

140g fine green beans

½ small cucumber , finely diced

½ bunch spring onions (about 5), sliced

⅓ pack mint , chopped, plus extra leaves to serve

juice ½ lemon

1 cooked beetroot , diced

1 small apple , cored and diced

1 small red onion , finely chopped

25g walnut halves , roughly broken

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

Method

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.

Meanwhile, stir all the salsa ingredients together.

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