Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pesto rice salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Just as home-made pesto does such wonders for pasta, so it does for rice too. Served cold it makes a lovely addition to a selection of salads for a buffet. Oozing with colour and lots of yummy goodness this pesto rice salad is the ultimate lunchbox winner for kids and adults alike.
Pesto Rice Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pesto Rice Salad is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pesto rice salad using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Rice Salad:
- Take 2 cup Minute White Rice, uncooked
- Prepare 1 packages basil pesto sauce
- Get 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- Prepare 8 oz whole milk mozzarella cheese, cut into half inch cubes
- Prepare 1/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- Get 1 pine nuts
This fabulous combination of rice, tuna, crispy bacon and tender spinach leaves tossed in a fragrant pesto dressing makes a wonderful summer lunch. Chicken salad, turkey meatballs, quinoa salad, zoodles, and just when you thought I had enough pesto recipes, I throw just another one at you. This time with rice served in bowls with a bunch of good stuff. This Chicken Pesto Rice Salad features lean chicken breast, grape tomatoes and artichoke hearts tossed in a basil walnut pesto for a salad that defies.
Instructions to make Pesto Rice Salad:
- Prepare rice according to package directions, place in large bowl. Let stand 10 minutes.
- Add pesto sauce, mix well. Gently stir in tomatoes and cheese.
- Sprinkle with pine nuts.
This tasty pesto rice salad recipe is a super quick and easy take to work lunch option. Then stir in the jar of roasted vegetables along with the mozzarella to the rice, and serve as a rice salad on a plate. Wine Recommendation: Both the dominant herbal flavor of the pesto and the yogurt's acidic tang suggest a sauvignon blanc-based wine. Once again, look to the Loire, sauvignon's. Dinner doesn't get much simpler than this: Boil some rice and toss it with pesto, yogurt, and rotisserie chicken from the Leftover cooked chicken or turkey will work just fine, too.
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