POPY FOODS Tasty and Healthy Food Recipes

• 2 cups of Brown rice
• 4 teaspoons of olive oil
• 2 teaspoons of vinegar
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tablespoon of black pepper
• 1 cucumber
• 2 tablespoons of finely chopped carrot
• 1 apple
• 1 capsicum
• 2 teaspoons of finely chopped coriander leaves
• 2 tablespoons of peanuts

Procedure:

• Fry the peanuts in a pan and remove the peel.
• Cut the cucumber, capsicum and apple into small pieces.
• Take four cups of water into a bowl and boil it.
• Add little amount of salt to taste and brown rice to the boiling water.
• Finally add olive oil, vinegar, black pepper, sliced cucumber, carrot, apple, coriander and peanuts to it.
• Stir this mixture well.
• After two minutes, off the stove.
• If needed we can also add potato, beans, tomato and leafy vegetables.
• Now hot and tasty brown rice salad is ready to serve

Healthy Benefits:
Brown rice is rich in fiber content. B-1 vitamin which is present in brown rice helps in maintaining glucose level in blood. It decreases the diabetic and cancer cells. One cup of brown rice gives 216cal of energy. Brown Rice not only rich in magnesium, selenium, B-3 vitamin,B-6 vitamin, phosphorous, iron, fatty acids but also other eighty types of minerals.