The warm and long days make us want to taste fresh, quick and easy to prepare dishes. This season, the main dish is undoubtedly the rice salad. Today, however, our editorial team wants to propose an unpublished version. The rice salad of the summer is the dish that is depopulating on the web and that has already conquered everyone with its goodness and freshness. Let’s find out how to prepare it in a few steps.
Ingredients
- 300 gr. Carnaroli rice;
- 100 gr. of fresh spinach;
- 80 gr. of raw ham;
- 2 pears;
- 1 cucumber;
- 15 fresh mint leaves;
- extra virgin olive oil to taste;
- sale q.b.;
- pepper as needed
The rice salad of the summer is the dish that is depopulating on the web and that has already conquered everyone with its goodness and freshness
Preparing this risotto is very simple and will take very little time. To start, we wash the mint well with running water and put its leaves in the mixer. We add a pinch of salt and 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Once you have the mint pesto, let’s put it aside. Meanwhile, let’s peel the cucumber and cut it into cubes.
We peel the pears and cut them into thin slices. Finally, we also cut the raw ham into small pieces. In the meantime, let’s clean the spinach and wash them. Dab them with a cloth and put them in a bowl together with the cucumber and diced pears. At this point we put a saucepan on the stove, salt the water and cook the rice. When cooked, drain it and pass it immediately under running water to stop cooking. We add the sauce of pears, spinach and cucumbers to the rice. We mix well, add the pesto to the mint, add salt and pepper and mix again. We add a drizzle of oil and lastly the ham cubes. If we want to garnish it, we can add a few leaves of fresh mint.
Advice
We recommend that you wait at least 15 minutes before enjoying this delicious rice salad to make sure it has time to flavor. We can consume it during the day or keep it in the fridge for a maximum of two days. After that, it would lose the aromas and flavors that characterize it.
Deepening
Only a few know that to prepare a perfect rice salad we must not make these very common mistakes.
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