Wild Rice Salad

• 3/4 cup cooked Wild Rice (page 177)
• Either 1/4 cooked Portuguese chourico sausage, diced, or 4 or 5 cooked small shrimp, or both
• 1/2 rib celery, chopped
• 1/8 large red bell pepper, chopped
• 1 scallion, chopped
• 2 tablespoons chopped herbs (parsley, celery leaves, basil,or tarragon, if available)
• Salt and freshly ground pepper
• Lettuce leaves
• A few black olives
• 34 tablespoons vinaigrette (page 149)

1. Toss the salad ingredients together, adding salt and pepper to taste.
2. Pour on the dressing and toss again.
3. Spoon onto a salad plate, and surround with lettuce and black olives.
4. Use any cooked rice or grain instead of the wild rice, and vary the ingredients according to your fancy.
5. Chicken, turkey, and ham are all good here, and you can substitute other vegetables, such as asparagus, snap peas, fennel, or small cucumbers.

rice, either, celery, red bell pepper, scallion, herbs, salt, black olives, vinaigrette

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/wild-rice-salad-378442 (may not work)