Adding rice to salads allows you to prepare many original dishes. It can be a salad with boiled chicken fillet or seafood, worthy to decorate a festive table.
Recipe for salad with rice "Unusual tenderness"
To prepare the salad, you will need the following ingredients: 500 g of chicken fillet, 5 tbsp. l. rice, 6 chicken eggs, 2 carrots, 200 g of hard cheese, 250 g of sour cream or mayonnaise, 2 cloves of garlic, salt to taste, fresh parsley.
Boil the chicken breast until tender in salted boiling water and leave to cool. The cooled breast is cut into small cubes. Raw carrots are peeled and grated on a coarse grater. Chicken eggs are also boiled. 4 cooled eggs are rubbed, and 2 are left to decorate the salad.
Rice is washed in several waters and steamed for 15-20 minutes. The finished rice is thrown onto a sieve to completely drain the liquid. The peeled garlic is passed through a press. Chopped garlic cloves are mixed with sour cream.
Part of the chicken fillet is laid out on the bottom of the salad bowl. Then rice, chicken eggs, carrots are placed on it. Each layer is coated with sour cream. Repeat layers until you run out of products. The top of the salad consists of grated cheese, smeared with the remaining sour cream.
Rub the yolks on a fine grater and sprinkle them on the cheese. Lily of the valley flowers are cut from the protein and decorated with a salad, previously sprinkled with chopped parsley.
Salad with rice "Tales of Neptune"
To prepare a salad with rice and seafood, you will need: 100 g of boiled rice, 500 g of boiled squid, 200 g of boiled shrimp, 2 chicken eggs, 150 g of hard cheese, 250 g of sour cream or mayonnaise, 2 tomatoes, salt to taste.
Boiled eggs and cheese are grated separately. Tomatoes are peeled and cut into small cubes. It is advisable to take ripe, but strong tomatoes that do not give a lot of juice for preparing the salad. You can also lightly squeeze the sliced tomatoes, draining the juice that has come out.
Squids are chopped using a blender or meat grinder. Then they are mixed with garlic, passed through a press, and half sour cream. The mass is salted to taste. The products are laid out in layers on a flat dish in the following order: rice, squid, tomatoes, chicken eggs, squid, cheese, sour cream, shrimp. The surface of the salad is decorated with black caviar or large shrimps. You can use thin lemon slices and chopped fresh dill for decoration.
Before serving, the salad should be infused for at least half an hour. Otherwise, the layers will not have time to soak in the sour cream and the dish will turn out to be dry enough.
