Rachel'S Fruity Rice Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup plain long grain rice
1 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 cup raisins
salt & pepper
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper or 1 teaspoon peri-peri
2 tablespoons chunky fruit chutney
125 g canned peaches
1 medium white onion
1 green pepper (capsicum)
1/2 cup mayonnaise (or to taste, careful not too much as will be too soggy)
1 bunch chopped fresh parsley

Preparation

PREPARATION.
Bring adequate (two cups?) amount of salted water to rolling boil, add rice, turmeric & raisins.
Stir so that turmeric mixes into rice and can be absorbed, bring rice back to boil, then turn right down to simmer covered for rest of cooking time (10 - 12 minutes?).
Once rice is cooked, rinse/drain; set aside to cool.
Finely chop both green pepper & white onion.
Chunky chop (not fine) half of the peaches from the can.
Add pepper, onion, peaches, cayenne pepper/peri peri, chutney, mayonnaise, salt & pepper to rice turning ingredients into rice gently so as not to mash rice.
Garnish with parsley.
VARIATIONS.
Try adding 1/4 cup brown rice which would need cooking separately as it takes longer to cook. just stir into plain rice before adding other ingredients.
Using a tablespoon of either lemon or lime juice gives this dish a nice twist, or even try using lemon or lime rind for an extra zing.