![]() ![]() If you have any other meal prep or salad ideas that you’d like to share with me, I’d love to hear from you. Locate the magnifying glass at the top of this post and type ‘Sunday’ into the search field. ![]() If you looking for more recipes that allow for Sunday food prep, do a search on my site. And, it makes enough for eight servings – that will surely lessen the weeknight dinnertime frustration. Season with 1/2 tsp coriander powder and pinch of salt. 3.Cook carrots and peppers for 5 minutes. Season with a pinch of salt, ground black pepper and 1/2 tsp coriander powder. Salads, such as this Kidney Bean Brown Rice Salad can be prepared start to finish on a Sunday and stored in your refrigerator in a food-safe container for up to three days. In a frying pan, heat the oil over medium heat and sauté beetroot slices for about 6-7 minutes. It would take you longer to wait for your pizza delivery to arrive! Then, on any particular weeknight, grill a chicken breast and reheat some of that rice in a skillet and you’ve got a healthy, cost-effective dinner in less than 30 minutes. ![]() ![]() A few minutes of your time is all you need to start a pot of rice or quinoa. Just an hour or so of your time on Sunday evening can provide you with so many dinnertime options. If you’re a part of a busy family, or if you are one of those people who get home from work and can’t fathom the thought of having to make dinner, so you spend you hard-earned cash on take out food, then I encourage you to try Sunday meal prep. That’s why this salad came together so quickly and easily. So, we always have cooked brown rice, millet, farro, couscous, or quinoa, etc., on hand throughout the week. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you might have heard me mention before that we are Sunday food prep enthusiasts. (Again, never happened!) Easy to prepare, simple ingredients, so much flavour you actually smile while shoveling it into your mouth, and a whole lots of healthy, good-for-you nutrients. Salads like this one eliminate the risk of broken dishes and dining room walls being stained with a balsamic vinaigrette. After all, how many times can one eat a tomato, lettuce, cucumber type of salad before wanting to throw the salad against the wall? (Never happened!) We eat a lot of salads in the summer months, but it’s easy to quickly grow tired of the same veggie-based salads. And, Dear Reader, this Kidney Bean Brown Rice Salad is all of those things! Not the lettuce and tomato boring type of salad, but salads with lots of flavour, lots of grains, beans and/or legumes, and light, simple seasonings. 20 minutes from start to finish and you’re good to go! The rest is just detail.A light, fresh taste with just a hint of sweet, this protein packed Kidney Bean Brown Rice Salad is vegetarian-friendly, and is a quick and easy side or main. The salad dressing is really what makes it, along with the celery, onion and parsley. If you want to make it into a 3-bean salad, by all means swap out some kidney beans for steamed green beans or wax beans, or some garbanzo or black beans. I don’t think he really minds.Īnyway, this is a delicious kidney bean salad recipe, similar to the canned three-bean salad that used to be very popular on Sunday luncheon tables, but with way less sugar. This is a typical noon-time conversation around our house lately, conducted usually with myself in the dining room, working on my laptop, half-yelling to Chris in the office/nursery working on his desktop.įive minutes later, I am scarfing down an entire can’s worth of beans in the form of this salad, straight from the fridge. Then suddenly, I’m not hungry anymore! And poor Chris ends up having a smoothie for lunch. Fortunately, neither I nor Chris is terribly picky when it comes to lunch, as long as it’s quick and easy. Lately I’ve been SUPER lazy when it comes to making delicious and healthy and original foods for us to eat. This kidney bean salad is going to become a refrigerator staple, I can tell you already. ![]()
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