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1/4
cup dry white wine or apple juice
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2
teaspoons finely shredded lemon peel
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3
tablespoons lemon juice
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1
tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
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2
tablespoons snipped fresh dillweed or 2 teaspoons dried dillweed
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1
tablespoon snipped parsley
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2
cloves garlic, minced
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1/2
teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
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1/4
teaspoon salt
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1 1/2
cups cooked brown rice
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1
15 ounce can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
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1/4
cup chopped red sweet pepper
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1/4
cup chopped, seeded cucumber
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1/4
cup golden raisins, coarsely chopped
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1
medium carrot, chopped
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2
medium green onions, sliced
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2
tablespoons chopped green olives
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6
ripe tomatoes
1. Dressing: For dressing, combine white wine or apple juice, lemon peel, lemon juice, olive oil, fresh or dried dillweed, parsley, garlic, pepper, and salt.
2. Filling: For filling, toss together rice, garbanzo beans, sweet pepper, cucumber, raisins, carrot, green onion, and olives in a large bowl. Add dressing and toss until evenly coated. Cover and refrigerate up to 4 hours.
3. Core each tomato. Make six lengthwise cuts from top of each tomato almost to but not through bottom, creating six wedges. Gently fan out wedges; place a tomato on each serving plate. Spoon about 3/4 cup filling into each tomato. Makes 6 servings.
4. Food exchanges: 1 vegetable, 2 starch, 1/2 fat
- Servings Per Recipe 6,
- Calories 202,
- Protein (gm) 6,
- Carbohydrate (gm) 36,
- Fat, total (gm) 5,
- Saturated fat (gm) 1,
- Dietary Fiber, total (gm) 6,
- Vitamin A (RE) 484,
- Vitamin C (mg) 41,
- Sodium (mg) 407,
- Iron (DV %) 3,
- Vegetables () 1,
- Starch () 2,
- Fat () 1,
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Bearsy, you should add some kind of bean. Rice and beans, eaten together, provide complete protein, as in meat. I didn't like the raisins, either.
8/10/2010 04:24:53 PM Report AbuseThis is good! But I didn't add the garbanzo beans and raisins. These two are not my favorite.
7/28/2010 05:35:03 PM Report Abuse