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Cold Rice Salad

Cold Rice Salad Recipe | Recipe For Cold Rice Salad

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.

Cold Rice Salad Recipe | Recipe For Cold Rice Salad

Recipe For Cold Rice Salad

Yield: Yield: 4 Serves
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes

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.

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

  1. In a saucepan, add 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of cold water and bring to the boil.
  2. Lower heat and simmer, covered for 25 minutes.
  3. Remove from heat and stand, covered for 5 minutes.
  4. Mix together the soy sauce, sesame oil, lemon juice, sugar, pepper, ginger and garlic in a small bowl.
  5. Place the cooled rice along with the capsicum, ham, peas and corn into a large bowl.
  6. 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.

Nutrition Information
Yield 4 Serving Size 1
Amount Per ServingCalories 158Total Fat 5gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 4gCholesterol 11mgSodium 826mgCarbohydrates 22gFibre 2gSugar 4gProtein 8g

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