For many the cold rice it's the summer dish. But in order not to always bring the same to the table rice salad, have you ever tried to put it in one die?
A cold rice cake
Imagine serving the rice salad not with a spoon, but cutting it into slices like a cake.
It is an original idea to bring a dish taken too much for granted to the table.
You can use the mold you prefer by choosing from a scenographic donut, a simple plum cake or a classic cake.
Here's how it's done.
Compact rice
We suggest you to use a particular rice for this cold rice cake, that is the sushi one because it remains more humid and compact.
The beans remain after cooking united and for this it is possible to use it both to make rolls as in the case of sushi, and a rice cake.
You can find this particular type of rice in all supermarkets and to cook it just follow the instructions on the packaging, but in general it must be cooked like the other types of rice, only that the water must be absorbed.
You can add or not therice vinegar which is foreseen in the preparation of sushi, it depends a little on the taste you want to obtain.
If you want to flavor and color the rice, you can add it to the saffron or of the turmeric and if you love them herbs you can make a sort of very light pesto and add them to the rice once it is cold.
The seasoning
In fact it would be better to speak of stuffed because this is a stuffed cake.
Between two layers of rice you can put whatever you prefer. For example a rice salad classic and therefore tuna, tomatoes and mayonnaise, but also one blue cheese cream with crunchy vegetable cubes if you want a vegetarian variant.
They are also very good slices of baked pepper with a cream of ricotta and basil, or the smoked salmon with guacamole.
The important thing is that it is something soft and creamy that binds the ingredients of the filling to obtain perfect slices.
How to compose the cold rice cake
Once the base is ready, that is the rice, spread part of it in a mold slightly greased with seed oil and then cover with a layer of filling which, as already mentioned, must be compact enough not to get lost in pieces once the slices have been cut.
Then cover with another layer of rice and complete everything with mixed seeds or chopped aromatic herbs. Let rest in the refrigerator for a few hours and then served in slices.
Better to use one hinge mold to obtain an aesthetically perfect cake.
Final decoration
You can leave your rice cake simple, with a white surface, but you can also have fun decorating it in many ways and with many ingredients.
We have already said some seeds. If you use them choose them in contrast, then the poppy seeds for example that are small and black and stand out on white rice. Or use some vegetables cut into confetti or cut out with cookie cutters: starlets of peppers, tomato fish, carrot flowers. If you have a certain manual skill, make some roses with vegetables.
To make the cake similar to a pastry cake, you can also decorate it with cake cheese creams spreading them with one spatula on a regular basis or by applying them to the cake with a sac à poche in a very elegant way.
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