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Recipe: Black rice salad with prawns and avocados

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A delicious and healthy dinner or lunch.

A delicious and healthy dinner or lunch.

Ingredients:

1 cup black rice

2 cups boiling water

Salt and pepper

500g shelled raw prawns with tails

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25g butter

2 cloves garlic crushed

1 tsp chopped rosemary

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2 each: oranges, large avocados

2 cups mixed baby salad greens

3 tbsp each: extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice

Method:

Rinse rice in cold water. Cook in boiling water until tender. Drain well and cool. Meanwhile, season prawns. Melt butter with garlic and rosemary in a frying pan and cook prawns until tails are pink.

Peel oranges and remove all the pith. Cut into cubes. Peel, stone and cube avocados.

Combine with rice and greens in a bowl and mix in oranges and avocados. Whisk olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper and stir through salad. Top with prawns. Serves 4

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