Recipe Steps for Rice Salad

• Let’s start preparing our delicious rice salad by preparing all the base and thus all the ingredients we will use for this quick and easy recipe.

  Take the two small pots and pour some water into them and place them on the stove. Turn on the flame. Wash the baby carrots well and when the water comes to a boil, we can proceed to boil them. We will do the same with the green peas, blanch them slightly in the water we heated in the other small pot. Drain everything and let them cool at room temperature without seasoning.

  Then place one of the two small pots back over the flame, always with plenty of water inside. Now it’s the eggs‘ turn. Do not overcook if you want to achieve a creamy effect like mine. The eggs will indeed add more color and taste to our rice salad if we boil them for a maximum of 7 minutes from when the water comes to a boil. If you like hard-boiled eggs, cook them for 9 to 10 minutes.

  Now take a non-stick pan and place it on the stove. Let it heat up without adding oil or anything else. Place the whole sausages inside and let them brown on all sides until they are beautifully golden and crispy on the outside. Let the chicken and turkey sausages cool for a few minutes before slicing them into rounds with a knife.

  Now that all the cooked ingredients are ready, let’s focus on the parboiled rice.

  

• Bring water to a boil in a pot with high sides. When the water comes to a boil, we can proceed with cooking the parboiled rice. Follow the instructions on the cooking time indicated on the rice package you chose for this recipe.

  Now take a wooden cutting board and a knife, some small bowls or plates, and start cutting all the other ingredients into cubes of the same size. We can start with the mozzarella and place the cubes in a small bowl. Then cut the cheese you have at your disposal or the one you chose. In my case, it was a piece of about 100 grams of Dutch cheese, delicious and tasty. Place the cubes in a bowl. Now proceed with cutting the sausages. Then the Greek feta if you have it at your disposal. Whether or not you use it will not affect the success of the recipe, it will just give a touch of extra flavor. Then drain the tuna of excess oil. If you chose a tuna tartare like in my case, the video recipe of the rice salad, skip this step.

  Now the cold ingredients we will use are also ready and diced. Take a nice large bowl with high edges. Drain the rice and quickly rinse it under cold running water. As you can see, I didn’t tell you to add salt to the boiling water because we will season the rice salad directly at the end of the entire preparation.

  Now pour the rice into the bowl, add all the ingredients we have prepared one by one. I recommend this order for the last ones: the eggs chopped into pieces after shelling them well and cooling them under running water; the salt, the pepper, the extra virgin olive oil, and the mayonnaise. These are the final ingredients; the liquids will blend everything together.

  It’s time to mix; here you have two options. The first: classic kitchen spoon with which you can gently mix all the ingredients. The second, my favorite: with your hands. Yes, you read that right, you will have clean hands because you washed them every single time you dedicated yourself to an ingredient. So go ahead and mix the rice salad, always gently, you can thus understand if you need to add more extra virgin olive oil or a few more sprinkles of mayonnaise. Taste to check the salt and pepper.

  Now cover the bowl with plastic wrap or aluminum foil. Place the rice salad in the refrigerator until it’s time to enjoy it. If you have the lid for the big bowl, which I obviously don’t because mine is from Ikea, you can use it. In fact, I recommend these steel bowls with lids that you can find on the Amazon marketplace (click here) it will be even easier to take it with us to the beach, the office or a picnic at the place we have chosen.

  I hope you liked this recipe, that it can give you inspiration to always prepare new rice salads. I look forward to seeing you on the blog with lots of other fresh and quick-to-prepare summer recipes, as always I wish you bon appétit!!!

  If you’re curious, here’s where I was: e-bike tour around Lake Fiastra to the panoramic viewpoint. Beautiful afternoon. If you’re in the area, remember to book your electric bikes from Marche Bike Tour!!!