Warm Holiday Rice Salad

This aromatic salad is an easy side dish that will look pretty on your holiday table.

This aromatic salad is an easy side dish that will look pretty on your holiday table.

1

Cook rice according to directions on package.
2

Preheat oven to 425°F. Spread butternut squash in a single layer on a roasting tray and drizzle with 2 tbsp oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Bake in oven for 20 mins, until soft.
3

When squash and rice are ready, thoroughly drain rice before tipping into squash tray. Squeeze lemon juice into tray and add another drizzle of oil (1 tbsp).
4

Add half of each of the remaining ingredients (mint, pomegranate seeds, pistachio kernels, and feta) and mix everything together.
5

Turn out onto a serving platter and scatter with remaining mint, pomegranate seeds, pistachios kernels, and feta.