Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pesto rice salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Just as home-made pesto does such wonders for pasta, so it does for rice too. This salad can be served warm as a first course and its extremely good as an accompaniment to fish or chicken main-course dishes. Served cold it makes a lovely addition to a selection of salads for a buffet.
Pesto Rice Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pesto Rice Salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Prepare 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- Get 8 oz whole milk mozzarella cheese, cut into half inch cubes
- Get 1/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- Take 1 pine nuts
Salads DO NOT have to be dull. There are so many delicious ways to crank up the flavour, whether it's adding roasted veggies, crunchy nuts and seeds, or the sweet kick of pesto. While the rice cooks, wash and cut the ends off the asparagus. Turn up the heat on the stove.
Steps 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.
As soon as the rice and stock begin to boil, cover with a lid and turn down the heat to low. Once the rice is cooked, transfer it to a serving bowl. Add the remaining pesto, lemon juice, olive oil and fresh ground black pepper to taste, and combine by stirring gently. Place all in a rice cooker cover rice with water. Press start and relax till done.
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