Loretta Sebastiani
Italian rice salads
I had learnt how to do a rice salad since I was a child. My mother was a great cook and she was used to do it all year round. I saw her to combine rice with many ingredients: fish, meat, pickled vegetables, bell peppers or mushrooms in oil, peas, beans, salami, cheese ... She prepared the best rice salad on Holiday Season to recycle all leftovers :)) Then in the 80s I tasted my first pasta salad. I have been experiencing since that time what is the best dish. I do not still know. Both taste fantastic! And you? what's your preferred dish?
Let's begin with calories ...
Have you ever thought how many calories are in a rice salad serving? It depends on many things: number and quality of ingredients, doses per serving, dressing ... Read more on the post ;))
Here are my recipes listed according to their ingredients ...
It's a spicy recipe made with rubra sauce and beans. A few ingredients for a low-calorie rice dish.
It's the favorite recipe of many people. It's an easy-and-quick to do recipe if made with canned chick peas. On the contrary, total time you need is much more but its taste is better.
This cold dish is a recipe of mine. It is made with a typical Calabrian salami called 'Ndujia that is a so soft salami that can be spread on bread. I thought it may be delicious combined with rice and legumes. I wasn't wrong ;))
Its main ingredients? salami, eggs, cheese, tuna and vegetables in oil. Tasty enough to be served in your special occasion menus.
Cold rice made with tuna, peas, quail eggs and vegetables in oil. A dish rich in ingredients that everybody likes very much.
Shellfish, fish and crustaceans
As the name says this cold dish is dedicated to lovers of seafood. Its main ingredients are octopus, squid, shrimp, surimi, and clams. Very good!
This rice salad is really special. First of all for its ingredients different from usual. Who of you has the habit to use sea asparagus? If you want to impress your guests choose this recipe ;)
A few ingredients for this rice salad creamy but appetizing: mayonnaise, boiled eggs, cotto ham and sweet and sour peppers. Really delicious!
Cotto ham, Emmental, boiled eggs, olives, mushrooms and grilled vegetables in olive oil, peas, and the usual sweet and sour bell peppers. Rich and well balanced. Excellent cold dish for your special occasions.
Rice salad with shrimps, peas and bell peppers
This is a simple-to-do cold course, ideal for a meal, buffet-style all year round or for your get-togethers in summer. Recipe to make in advance.