Rachel's Fruity Rice Salad

Tasty fruity savoury rice salad. Ideal accompaniment for barbecued, grilled or baked meats & fish. My mum used to make this salad back home in Cape Town, South Africa when we had our braais (bbqs) & it was my favourite salad, crunchy & fruity but definitely savoury. yummy mummy!

• Ready In: 22 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1  cup  plain long grain rice
• 1  teaspoon turmeric
• 1⁄4 cup raisins
•  salt & pepper
• 1  teaspoon cayenne pepper or 1  teaspoon peri-peri
• 2  tablespoons  chunky fruit chutney
• 125  g  canned peaches
• 1  medium  white onion
• 1  green pepper (capsicum)
• 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise (or to taste, careful not too much as will be too soggy)
• 1  bunch  chopped fresh parsley

Directions

1. PREPARATION.
2. Bring adequate (two cups?) amount of salted water to rolling boil, add rice, turmeric & raisins.
3. Stir so that turmeric mixes into rice and can be absorbed, bring rice back to boil, then turn right down to simmer covered for rest of cooking time (10 - 12 minutes?).
4. Once rice is cooked, rinse/drain; set aside to cool.
5. Finely chop both green pepper & white onion.
6. Chunky chop (not fine) half of the peaches from the can.
7. Add pepper, onion, peaches, cayenne pepper/peri peri, chutney, mayonnaise, salt & pepper to rice turning ingredients into rice gently so as not to mash rice.
8. Garnish with parsley.
9. VARIATIONS.
10. •Try adding 1/4 cup brown rice which would need cooking separately as it takes longer to cook. just stir into plain rice before adding other ingredients.
11. •Using a tablespoon of either lemon or lime juice gives this dish a nice twist, or even try using lemon or lime rind for an extra zing.