Riso Delicato
Delicate rice salad
This rice salad has a very delicate taste. It's a recipe of ours that all our guests like very much. You'll need few ingredients: rice, eggs, prosciutto cotto (cooked ham), mayonnaise, chives, sweet & sour bell peppers and olive oil. Serve this Italian rice salad for your Sunday lunch (it has a right amount of calories as one-plate meal), alfresco dinner, BBQ, buffet for special occasions in spring or summer. Pair a white wine such as Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi (Marches - Italy). Interested in other Italian rice cold dishes? look at other rice salad recipes
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yeld for 12
- 8 hard-boiled eggs
- 1 280g (10 ounces) can sweet & sour peppers, well drained and finely sliced
- 300g (10 1/2 ounces) prosciutto cotto in a piece
- 4 Tbsp dried chives
- 3 Tbsp + 2 tsp olive oil
- 4 Tbsp mayonnaise
- 550g (1.2 pound - about 3 cups) long-grain, parboiled rice
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 30 minutes
cooking: 15 minutes (for rice) and 10 minutes (for eggs)
total: 60 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 387 (kCal) 20 % GDA (*) - 1618 (kJ)
Protein: 13.5 (g) 27 % GDA
Total fat: 21.1 (g) 31 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 37.9 (g) 15 % GDA
Sugars: 0.2 (g) 1 % GDA
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 your 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, bell peppers included.
But remember to put apart some bell pepper strips to garnish your dish. - - 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 your rice salad needs added salt.
- - Slice the remaining eggs and decorate the top using some strips of bell peppers too.
- - Your rice salad is ready!
Just before serving
- - Let sit your rice salad at least 2 hours before serving or, if chilled first, bring back to room temperature to serve.
Note
Tips
- - 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!
Menu planning
- - This rice salad is perfect for your daily menu and for a special occasion menu too.
- - Prepare this delicate rice salad for your Sunday menu and serve it as one-plate meal. You can increase the suggested portion. Follow our tip below, in "Healthy eating".
- - Delicate rice salad can be served in other occasions too: 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.
If you are planning a meal, buffet-style consult these pages of ours where you can look for other cold dish ideas: pasta salad (insalata di pasta), torte salate (savory tart or cake or pies), canapés, Italian antipasto ideas, Italian finger food, crostini (croutons), pizza, focaccia (flat bread recipes).
Besides remember these other dishes ideal for a buffet party: meatloaf, vitello tonnato (cold braised veal in tuna sauce), veal paté, chicken salad (read our ideas in the page dedicated to chicken recipes) and then rabbit salad. Don't forget assorted salami and an assorted platter of natural or smoked fish in slices. If you read our pages dedicated to fish you can look for Italian cold seafood recipes made with shellfish, molluscs, sea-fish and fresh-water fish.
Ah ... don't forget cakes and dessert. Italian cake and desserts are fantastic, do you agree?
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 its 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: 60g (2 1/4 ounce) rice, 2 quail eggs or half an hard-boiled egg, a medium-size strip of bell peppers, 25g (1 ounce) 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 you 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 calories 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. Consult other no salt recipes in our page dedicated to Italian cooking
By Loretta
What's the right wine ?
We generally pair Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi (wine of Marches - Italy) or another white Italian wine with this rice salad.
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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