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Those last few frozen broccoli florets ... Start looking for ingredients for the salad by "shopping" your fridge. Diced pickles have already been mentioned, and both the sweet and sour varieties ...

You need to pickle the beetroot for about a week before it gets pickled. I've served it with a broccoli salad but you can use any salad veg that you want eg cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower ...

This broccoli salad, with its rice and nuts, is a complete meal and one I serve regularly for dinner and make enough to pack for lunch the next day too. I quite often add other blanched veges ...