Amoli Rice Salad with Barberries & Orange Peel

Amol, on the Mazanderan plain, along the south coast of the Caspian Sea, was an important ancient city along one of the branches of the Silk Road. Today, it is a pretty town of mosques, shrines and houses whose walls are painted with birds and flowers; its chief business is rice, which grows all around. I have adapted this salad from a rice dish popular there.