Creole Banana Salad

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 15
• 225 g long grain brown rice (basmati)
• 4 large bananas
• 1 lemon
• 1 lime
• 1 medium apple
• 125 g green grapes
• 75 g chopped fresh pineapple
• 30 ml chopped fair trade cashew nuts
• 15 ml sultanas
• 4 large lettuce leaves
• 15 ml desiccated coconut
• 120 ml mayonnaise
• 2 1/2 ml engish hot mustard
• 1 dash piri-piri

Recipe

• 1 juice the lemon, discard the skin.
• 2 juice the lime, discard the skin.
• 3 core and chop the apple.
• 4 cook the rice in boiling water until tender. (15 mins rice 25 - 35 mins brown rice)
• 5 drain well and allow to cool.
• 6 put the rice in a mixing bowl and stir in the bananas, half of the lemon juice, the lime juice, the chopped apple, grapes, pineapple, walnuts and sultanas.
• 7 make the dressing as follows:
• 8 mix together the mayonaise, the remaining lemon juice, piri piri powder and mustard in a measuring jug or small bowl.
• 9 pour over the banana and rice mixture, and gently fold the mixture until everything is coated with the dressing.
• 10 put the lettuce leaves around a serving bowl and spoon in the salad mixture.
• 11 sprinkle on the coconut.
• 12 to serve.
• 13 chill for 30 mins in the fridge and serve.