Rice Salad

Rice Salad

As this meal is not really known in Austria, I thought I could share with you a recipe I love to use in the summer months. The rice salad is a quite refreshing, healthy and tasty meal you can prepare in 15 minutes. This salad is excellent on its own and also perfectly fits for a barbecue side-dish! ;)

Ingredients

•           Rice (as much as you want), knowing that 1 cup + 2 cup water ≈ 2 people
• -         Tomatoes (idem)
•           Corn (idem)
•           Lettuce (idem)
• -         Olives (idem)
•           1 or 2 tuna can(s) (optional: my mother uses this but I don’t)
•        In fact, everything you like to put in it like maybe prawn, ham, cheese, carrots, peppers, onions, garlic, nuts, etc.

My personal salad-dressing

•           1/2 teaspoon(s) of hot Dijon mustard
•           Wine vinegar
•           Olive oil
• -         Pepper, salt
•           Herbs (I use the Provence herbs but you can use what ever you want)

Preparation

1.           Cook the rice as if you were cooking pasta (that’s important because your cooked rice shouldn’t be sticky).
2.           While the rice is cooking cut the tomatoes in cubes, cut the lettuce and put it and the other ingredients into a big bowl.
3.           Once the rice is done, drain it using a colander. Cool the rice off using cold water and when the rice has become cool, add it to the other ingredients.
4.           In order to prepare you dressing, just put all the ingredients together and stir your preparation until it becomes a unified color.
5.           Pour your dressing into the salad and mix everything together and…

... your rice salad is ready to eat! J

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