Orange-Rice Salad with Pine Nuts and Pomegrante Seeds

2 cups of water
1 cup uncooked rice
1 tsp salt, divided
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
2 tsp grated orange rind
1/4 cup orange juice
1 1/2 tbls extra virgin olive oil
1/4 tsp black pepper
2 cups orange sections (about 3 oranges)
Seeds from one pomegranate
1/4 cup roasted pine nuts
3 tbls chopped flat-leaf parsley

cook rice, cool rice completely. combine rest of salt, vinegar, orange rind, orange juice, olive oil and black pepper in bowl and whisk together. Combine rice, vinegar mixture orange sections, pomeganate seeds, pine nuts and parsley; fold together. Makes about 6, 2/3 cup servings

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CDURNIN.