Three-grain fruit salad - country living

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Water
⅓ cup Regular pearl barley (see Note)
⅓ cup Long-grain brown rice
⅓ cup Coarse kasha (roasted buckwheat groats or kernels)
1 large Egg white
½ cup Coarsely chopped walnuts
¼ cup Dark seedless raisins
¼ cup Sliced celery
1 large Golden Delicious or Braeburn apple, cored and cut into 1-inch cubes
½ pounds Red seedless grapes
½ cup Apple juice
½ cup Reduced-calorie mayonnaise or reduced-fat mayonnaise dressing
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
½ teaspoon Salt
Salad greens

Directions

1. In 3-quart saucepan, heat water, barley, and rice to boiling over high heat. Cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer 30 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, in small skillet, stir kasha and egg white until kernels are coated. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, 2 to 3 minutes or until egg has dried on kasha and the kernels are sepa- rated. Remove from heat. Stir kasha into the barley and rice and continue to cook grains until tender and all liquid is absorbed-about 15 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, heat oven to 350'F. Place walnuts in small baking pan.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until toasted. Cool walnuts to room temperature.

4. Transfer cooked grains to large bowl and cool to room temperature about 1 hour. (Do not refrigerate because the grains will get hard.) Add toasted walnuts, raisins, celery, and apple. Set aside half the grapes for garnish and remove stems from remaining grapes.

5. In 2-C glass measuring cup, combine apple juice, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and salt. Stir until well mixed and pour over grain mixture.

Add stemmed grapes and toss salad until well mixed. Line serving plate with salad greens. Mound salad on greens. Cut remaining grapes into small clusters and use to garnish salad.

Note: Barley and brown rice take only 10 minutes to cook in a pressure cooker. For a collection of pressure-cooker recipes, send a business-size self-addressed, stamped envelope to Light 'n Easy Cook- ing, Presto Pressure Cooking Institute, P.O. Box 1212, Eau Claire, Wis. 54702.

Nutritional information per serving-protein: 9 grams; fat: 22 grams; carbohydrate: 70 grams; Tiber: 1 grams; sodium: 450 milli,ram,; cholesterol: 10 milligrams; calories: 477.

Country Living/June/93 Scanned & fixed by DP & GG

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