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If you’re looking for a delicious cold rice salad recipe, try out this tasty Asian style rice salad!
This dish makes an excellent dinner, a perfect side dish and is a great for picnics, a buffet or a cold rice lunch idea.

See the variations to make your own Asian brown rice salad with bacon.

Recipe For Cold Rice Salad

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Here's my deliciously tasty and super easy cold rice salad.
This recipe for cold rice salad creates a perfect summer dish!
It is an Asian rice salad that is full of flavour and easy to make for the whole family.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Course Lunch, Main Course, Salad

Cuisine Australian, New Zealand

Servings 4 Serves

Calories 158 kcal

Ingredients

Rice Salad

1 cup White Long Grain Rice cooled
1 Red capsicum diced
½ cup ham diced
½ cup Green peas
½ cup Corn kernals

Dressing

3 Tbsp Soy sauce
1 Tbsp Sesame oil
1 Tbsp Lemon juice
1 tsp Caster sugar
1 tsp Ground black pepper
2 tsp Grated fresh ginger
1 clove Garlic minced

Instructions

In a saucepan, add 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of cold water and bring to the boil.
Lower heat and simmer, covered for 25 minutes.
Remove from heat and stand, covered for 5 minutes.
Mix together the soy sauce, sesame oil, lemon juice, sugar, pepper, ginger and garlic in a small bowl.
Place the cooled rice along with the capsicum, ham, peas and corn into a large bowl.
Drizzle the dressing on top, and toss everything together until well combined.

Notes

Cold Rice Salad Serving Suggestions

Your cold rice salad can be perfect for:

As a main;
Serve as a main dish for lunch or dinner with sliced, freshly buttered french stick as a side dish.
As a side dish;
Serve as a side dish at your next barbecue.
Great to take on a picnic.

Rice Salad Recipe Variations

Brown Rice Salad;
If you would like to use a brown rice in this recipe and make an Asian brown rice salad, simply add an additional ½ a cup of water to the recipe.
Rice salad with bacon:
Substitute the ham for cooked and chopped streaky bacon.
Add an egg;
Hard boil an egg, Chop it up and toss it through with your salad ingredients.
Vegetarian Rice Salad;
Simply remove the ham.

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Last updated by Shane Lowry on 26/04/2024