Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pesto rice salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pesto Rice Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pesto Rice Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pesto rice salad using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Rice Salad:
- Prepare 2 cup Minute White Rice, uncooked
- Get 1 packages basil pesto sauce
- Take 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- Prepare 8 oz whole milk mozzarella cheese, cut into half inch cubes
- Make ready 1/3 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 pine nuts
Serve With Antoni serves with rice and lentils. For the pesto you need garlic, pine nuts, fresh basil, parmesan and olive oil. Besides basil pesto for Italian cuisine, pesto can be made with spinach, other leafy greens, or with herbs such as cilantro or parsley. For example, cilantro pesto rice goes great with Mexican, Asian, or Indian cuisine.
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.
Parsley pesto matches well with French cuisine. Over the years I've perfected a version of homemade pesto chicken salad after ordering it countless times at any number of restaurants. It pairs fresh pesto with sun-dried tomatoes with shredded chicken — the ideal preparation for catching all the bits of herbs, cheese, and nuts that makes this recipe the best. Place all in a rice cooker cover rice with water. Press start and relax till done.
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