Rice salad: the quintessential summer dish, which has a thousand variations, and is ideal to serve as first course or how single dish. It can also be prepared in advance, can be kept for two or three days and is perfect to take to the beach for a light but tasty snack. It can be stuffed with lots of ingredients, from fish to cheese, to vegetables. Here we will show you the classic salad recipe ricewhich can be enriched with many other flavors, according to your taste.

Which rice to choose for rice salad

Like many other recipes, rice salad is also a very simple dish, which becomes gourmet if the raw materials used are of excellent quality. This is especially true for rice. You can choose different types, from more common Ribewhich is used for most parboiled rice, capable of maintaining cooking without overcooking, at the Carnaroli rice or Arboriowith fairly large and resistant grains, Boldvery consistent.

Doses and cooking water for rice salad

For each person it is possible to calculate 80 to 100 g of ricewhich must be cooked in a lot salt water equal to 5 times the amount of rice to boil. There amount of salt is approximately 8-10 g per liter of water. The rice should only be thrown in when it is fully boiling and left to cook for the time indicated on the package, or a few seconds less (al dente rice is preferable to overcooked rice). Once cooked it goes drained and rinsed under running water.

The filling: give free rein to your imagination

Rice salad has several variations and each family, one might say, has its own recipe. The most common ingredients for a classic version I am vegetables, cheese, ham, eggs and tuna. You can choose between mortadella, cooked ham or sausage. For the cheese, you can opt for a more delicate taste, with fontinaor more decisively, with emmental or provola. Vegetables cannot be missing peaswhich must be boiled, i pickled gherkins, spring onions, peppers and tomatoes, which instead should be added raw. Everything must be cut into small pieces. To this must be added the tuna in oil and eggs, which must be very firm. Slice each ingredient into little pieces, put everything in a large bowl and mix. Add the rice and only before serving season with extra virgin olive oil and saltThe salad is ready to be enjoyed.