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Rainbow Rice Salad – Insalata di Riso

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The rice salad is a traditional summer recipe, fresh, delicious and full of tasty ingredients. Once you’ve cooked the rice in salted water and it’s cooled down you only need to add the colorful tasty ingredients: peas, cheese, hot dog, tuna, olives, boiled eggs… These are some of the most common ingredients but you can change them according to your taste (or to your  leftovers), for example, you can replace the hot dog with cubes of ham, Gruyère with another semi-soft cheese like swiss cheese, etc. Quick and easy to prepare the rice salad is the perfect summer dish that you can prepare in advance and keep it refrigerated until ready to serve. Colorful and fresh, the rice salad is a classic that brings joy and a rainbow of colors to the table making it very attractive to your children….and it’s gluten-free 🙂 

photos by coco zordan

 

The Recipe

Servings

4-6

Prep time

30 min.

Cooking time

12 min.

Ingredients

  • white rice (italian or basmati) 2 cups

  • ham (in cubes) or hot dogs (in slices) 1/2 cup

  • tuna 1 can

  • sweet peas 1 cup

  • swiss cheese (or gruyere) 1 cup

  • boiled eggs 3

  • pitted olives 1 cup

  • capers 1/2 cup

  • bell peppers (cooked or raw) 1 cup

  • red onion and /or scallion 1 cup (chopped or finely sliced)

  • basil and or parsley 1/2 cup

  • dressing
  • mayo 2 tbs

  • vinegar/lemon to taste

  • salt and pepper to taste

  • XVOO 6-8 tbs

Directions

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in a large pot bring water to boil add some salt (water should taste pleasantly salty), add rice and cook it “al dente” (2-3 minutes before the regular cooking time),

in a smaller pot boil the eggs (15 minutes if starting with cold water, 7-9 minutes with hot water) remove them from the stove and put them under the running cold water till they cool down).

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cut them into pieces when cold.

let the rice cool down in a large bowl (stir it gently with a spoon once in a while to help the cooling process) In the meantime cut and chop the other ingredients. (you can prepare rice and eggs the day beforeor any other leftover)

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when  rice has cooled down add the XVOO, mayo, the lemon juice, vinegar and all the other ingredients and gently mix. Add salt and pepper at the end to taste.

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