6 rice salad recipes to revamp your summer menus

Monday 11 August 2025 15:30 - Patricia González
6 rice salad recipes to revamp your summer menus

Few recipes stand the test of time and heat as well as a good rice salad. Not out of nostalgia, but out of pure culinary logic: it is easy to prepare, it accepts almost anything in the pantry and improves after a few hours in the refrigerator. Some details to take into account: a well cooked rice, well combined ingredients and a dressing that knows how to bind the whole without stealing the limelight. Nothing more and nothing less. Rice salad is, in fact, a small manifesto of summer cooking: light but nutritious, fresh but comforting, simple but worth repeating.

In this article we bring together seven versions that start from the same base, rice, but reach very different places: from Mediterranean versions to some with an Asian touch, vegetarian or more sophisticated, with prawns and zucchini. Because yes, rice also knows how to adapt to the summer... and to show off at lunchtime, either in an improvised picnic or as a unique dish when you come back hungry from the beach.


6 suggestions for your next rice salad


Rice salad (easy and quick)

Rice salad is the perfect recipe to take on a picnic! Very easy to make, it will be just as simple to slip it into a Tupperware to take anywhere with you. A perfect idea to keep in mind when you're short on inspiration for your packed lunches at...


Mediterranean rice salad : tuna, olive, sun-dried tomatoes and lemon

Let's make a rice salad : add some tuna, sun-dried tomatoes and olives to add a Mediterranean touch to it !


Vegetarian rice salad: feta, corn, carrots, peas, cherry tomatoes and mint

The essential of our picnic day? The rice salad! Here we offer you a vegetarian recipe, filled with flavors and vegetables to fill up with fiber and vitamins. Add a hint of mint for freshness and here you are with the perfect recipe for eating out ;-)


Rice salad with prawns, zucchini and ginger

Try our rice salad with prawns and zucchini, you'll love it !


Crispy and spicy salmon crispy rice salad!

Transform your day-old rice into an ultra-crisp salad full of pep! With golden rice with red curry paste, salmon, crunchy vegetables and a soya-ginger-lime sauce to liven things up, this crispy rice salad is an explosion of flavors. Fresh, spicy,...


Rice salad with chicken, zucchini, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar

Do you have any leftover rice and chicken? Combine them in a rice salad and go on a picnic ;-) A great solution also when you don't know what to bring to the office for the lunch break! Easy to make, we offer you all the steps of this recipe just...


Patricia GonzálezPatricia González
Passionate about cooking and good food, my life revolves around carefully chosen words and wooden spoons. Responsible, yet forgetful. I am a journalist and writer with years of experience, and I found my ideal corner in France, where I work as a writer for Petitchef. I love bœuf bourguignon, but I miss my mother's salmorejo. Here, I combine my love for writing and delicious flavors to share recipes and kitchen stories that I hope will inspire you. I like my tortilla with onions and slightly undercooked :)

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