Flattened Rice-Strawberry Salad~

“Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields nothing is real and nothing to get hung about strawberry fields are forever…”

John Lennon wrote this famous song, which was an ode to his friendship with Paul McCartney, referring to the Salvation Army home Lennon was in as a child, called the Strawberry Field.

Ingredients:

• 150 g or ½ cup of flattened rice,
• ½ cup of yogurt,
• Mint leaves (handful),
• 10 pieces of cashews,
• 1 tablespoon of brown sugar,
• assorted fruits: papaya, black grapes or black raisins, bananas and strawberries (about 200 g each).

Instructions:

1. At first take the cashews and put them in a pan with 1 tablespoon of brown sugar and quickly cook them for about 10 second. Then take off and let it cool.
2. Dry roast the flattened rice and let it cool.
3. In a tall glass bowl or one of those jars, pile on the papaya wedges, mint leaves then strawberries (cut into top to bottom) wedges, banana slices and grapes.
4. Then sprinkle some flattened rice and add a dollop of yoghurt. Continue till you reach top.
5. Lastly enjoy the flattened rice-strawberry salad.