Brown Rice Tomato Basil Salad Recipe | Simple Nourished Living (2024)

Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Brown Rice Tomato Basil Salad

I've been thinking about this Brown Rice Tomato Basil Salad ever since making slow cooker farro with cherry tomatoes and Parmesan.

It's an oldie but good from the Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family (affiliate link) that I first made years ago.

If you're on the lookout for easy tasty Weight Watchers salad recipes, this one fits the bill. With just a handful of common ingredients you can make it in minutes—especially if you have leftover brown rice in the refrigerator.

Cooking up a large pot of beans, or brown rice, or lentils, or quinoa once or twice a week to have on hand in the fridge can be a real time saver at meal time. (At the moment I have both a stash of cranberry beans and brown rice available.)

Recipe Notes

With brown rice in the refrigerator and tomatoes and basil on the counter, I was able to whip up this wholesome low fat brown rice tomato basil salad in less than ten minutes.

I made a couple of adjustments. I used red wine vinegar since I didn't have champagne or rice wine vinegar. And used honey instead of sugar.

If you want to make this brown rice tomato basil salad ahead, leave out the basil until serving time.

If, like me, you find cooking rice a challenge, you may want to do what I did—invest in a rice cooker (affiliate link). It's made my life so much simpler. Sticky and/or scorched rice are now a thing of the past.

In the meantime, if you need a little extra brown rice cooking guidance, here is a great blog post from Pinch My Salt for How to Make Perfect Brown Rice on the stove.

How Many Calories and WW Points in this Salad?

According to my calculations each serving has 155 calories and:

4 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
4 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 *PointsPlus (Old plan)

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And is Simply Filling too.

This tastes best served at room temperature.

Here's another favorite salad with all the delicious flavors of summer in the Mediterranean: Easy Italian Summer Rice Salad

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Source: slightly adapted from Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family (affiliate link) by Ina Garten

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

If you like brown rice tomato basil salad you might like:

• Farro with Cherry Tomatoes and Parmesan
• Easy Corn Saladwith Tomatoes + Basil
• Homemade Salad Dressings

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