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Delicate rice salad recipe

Preparation and cooking

• - Cook the rice "al dente" stage in a pot of salt water.
  Drain it in the colander and run under cold water to stop the cooking.
• - Meanwhile dice the prosciutto cotto (cooked ham or cotto ham).
• - Shell the eggs and separate the yolk from the white of six (set aside two eggs for decorating).
  Cut the whites into little pieces and mash the yolks with a fork.
• - Put all the ingredients in a large bowl included the bell peppers and rice.
• - Transfer the rice in the bowl.
• - Add the chives and olive oil and stir gently.
• - Blend in the mayonnaise and stir.
• - Taste to determine if the rice salad needs added salt.
• - Slice the remaining eggs and decorate the top using some strips of bell peppers too.

Just before serving

• - Let sit at least 2 hours before serving or, if chilled first, bring back to room temperature to serve.

Tips and menu planning

• - Do not leave the rice in the colander too much. Once drained well, if you are not yet ready with the other ingredients, put it back into the pan in which you've cooked it and season with a couple of tablespoons olive oil.
• - Your rice salad will taste much more if you use fresh chives.
• - If you have any rice salad left don't worry, it's fantastic the day after too!
• - This rice salad is perfect for a summer menu: alfresco dinner, BBQ, a cold buffet, everytime you have to prepare some dishes ahead.
  But remember you can prepare it for a buffet party in cold months too.

Healthy eating

• - Rice salad is a dish rich in ingredients and so it is necessary to calculate the right amount of everything we use not to exceed calories, fat and sugars.
• - Celebration menu. If you prepare it for a celebration menu don't worry too much about the nutrition facts. It's a rare event.
• - Daily menu. If you like the combination of its ingredients and would like to prepare it for your dinner or lunch, use these amounts per head: 60 g (2 1/4oz) rice, 2 quail eggs or half an hard-boiled egg, a medium-size strip of bell peppers, 25 g (1oz) prosciutto cotto, the amount you prefer of aromatic herbs, 1/2 Tbsp mayonnaise and 1 tsp olive oil. With these doses you can have the following nutrition facts:
  calories 384 kCal (1606 kJ)
  protein 10.2 g
  total fat 17.1 g
  carbo 50.2 g
  sugars 0.5 g
  fibers 0.3 g
  Complete your menu with fresh seasonal fruit and raw vegetables if you're still hungry.
  I remember rice should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals).
  
• - As you can see it's a tomato-free recipe, ideal for people intolerant or alergic to tomatoes.
• - If you want to drink a glass of wine remember you have to add 80-85 kCal per 100 ml.
• - I remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt. There is always a combination of flavors that substitutes salt. Other no salt recipes ...

By Loretta

What's the right wine for " Rice salads - delicate rice " ?

Our suggestion is: "Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi" or a white Italian wine.