Rice salad is a unique, quick and easy dish, perfect to prepare during the hottest days and customizable with your favorite ingredients or those we have in the pantry: the recipe for rice salad can be interpreted as empty -fridge and above all as a dinner-saving solution!
Not only with white rice, but it is also perfect to prepare with venere, red or brown rice: the rice salad with fish or shellfish, such as shrimp, is also super tasty.
Those who follow a vegetarian or vegan diet can prepare it by omitting ingredients of animal origin, thus preferring vegetables such as corn, green beans, peas, carrots and zucchini.
In fact, rice salad is an excellent alternative to classic pasta dishes and is the perfect combination for a picnic, a lunch on the beach or an informal dinner.
The real secret to its success is the imagination and quality of the ingredients, which can be the most varied, chosen according to one's tastes. We offer you a classic version with cooked ham, mozzarella, olives, corn and tuna.
Category: First Courses
Let's start by cooking the rice in salted water according to the cooking times indicated on the package [1]. When it is still al dente, drain it, run it under cold water to stop the cooking and let it cool.
It is important to choose the right rice: the qualities with fine grains that remain well separated even during cooking (Ribe, Veneria, Arborio, Parboiled, etc.) are the most suitable.
We then transfer the rice into a container [2] and proceed by adding all the ingredients that we have prepared in the meantime.
We then combine the mozzarella cut into small pieces [3], the diced cooked ham [4]
the well-drained tuna in oil, the corn [5] and the pitted black olives. We mix everything and let it rest in the refrigerator for about half an hour so that the flavors bind together pleasantly [6].
If you like, add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, serve and enjoy this tasty and light dish.
A variant of this rice salad in the classic version can be prepared with venere rice which with its unmistakable black color gives the dish originality, or with Basmati rice which makes the recipe very delicate and close to the oriental culinary tradition.
Rice salad or cold rice is one of the most attractive and colorful summer foods in Italian cuisine
Everyone likes cold rice recipes, even children, and they are perfect for a picnic, a lunch on the beach or for a light meal on hot summer days.
Being a typically summer dish, rice salad goes perfectly with a good beer or duly chilled sparkling white wine.
This summer dish is also called "riso freddo".
Rice salad or cold rice is a particularly tasty and colorful summer dish: it is a delicious and colorful summer meal that consists of boiled rice seasoned with tuna, salad, cherry tomatoes, pickled vegetables, olives, ham, cheese and many others tantalizing elements!
It is a simple dish to prepare in advance and can be adapted to the preferences of the whole family. It is fresh, tasty, hearty and loved by adults and children alike
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7 oz/200 g of Arborio or Parboiled rice
3.5 oz/100 g of mozzarella
1 oz /30 g of pitted black olives
to taste salt
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