Nena's Brown Rice Salad

Nena Niessen

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of cooked Brown rice
  • ¼ cup of mung beans sprouts
  • ¼ cup of shredded red cabbage
  • ¼ of a medium yellow bell pepper
  • 1 whole green onion cut into thin slice
  • ¼ cup of slice almond (optional and wonderful)

For dressing

  • ½ of teaspoon of olive oil
  • 1 garlic cloves minced
  • ¼ teaspoon of turmeric
  • ½ of an orange (juice only)
  • 1 lemon (juice only)
  • Salt to taste

Method

  • Dressing: In a bowl combine all of the ingredients and whisk really good  
  • Salad: In a bowl add the rice and add the rest of ingredients, then add the dressing and mix all together. Or you can just add the dressing to the rice and then add the vegetables.

Suggestion
You can add hemp seed to increase the amount of protein to make it a complete meal.  When you eat brown rice you need to add greens to slow down the sugar spike.

Benefits of mung bean according to Dr. Mao
Mung beans have been traditionally used by eastern herbalists to treat hot inflammatory conditions. When prepared as a soup, mung beans are used to treat heat stroke associated with thirst, irritability, and fever. They are also used to treat systemic infections as well as summer heat syndrome. Mung beans also have diuretic and calming effects. Other conditions treated by the use of mung beans in the diet include edema, headaches, acne, arterial plaque, arthritis, yeast overgrowth, and carpal tunnel syndrome.

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About Nena

Nena Niessen, author of Cures from the Kitchen, is a Nicaraguan chef who is certified in Plant Based Nutrition and Natural Health. As a two-time survivor of cancer herself, Nena’s passion is cooking for cancer patients and boosting their immune systems through the power of delicious, nutritious food. She is a disease prevention cooking expert who only cooks with the most natural of foods. She has appeared on PBS’s “Cooking for Health and Pleasure”, is an official blogger in the Huffington Post, and is a contributor for Edible magazine. Nena has worked with many notable clients such as syndicated radio and talk show host Billy Bush, Arianna Huffington, Sugar Ray Leonard and bestselling authors Dr. Harvey Karp and Robert O. Young; All of whom sing the praises of a woman whose mission is to help people achieve and maintain good health as well as aid in the prevention of disease through the use of healthful, all natural foods. Find Nena online at www.CuresFromtheKitchen.net.