Recipes: Celebration summer salad

Ingredients:

Salad:
250g round green beans

250g low GI 90-second white rice

250g cherry tomatoes

2 small avocados

8-12 basil leaves

200g feta diced

Dressing:
1/4 cup lemon juice

Pinch sugar

2 cloves garlic, crushed

5 tbsp olive oil

Trim beans and cut into 5cm lengths.

Method:

Blanch in boiling water for about 3 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain, refresh in ice-cold water. Drain and pat dry. Meanwhile, cook rice in the microwave. Cool.

Halve the cherry tomatoes. Halve, stone and peel avocados. Cut into quarters.

Combine all the salad ingredients in a large bowl.

To make the dressing, whisk lemon juice, sugar and garlic until the sugar is dissolved. Slowly whisk in the olive oil.

Serve drizzled over the salad.

Serves 4