Cool rice salads make for the perfect summer side dishes or main meals. They’re simple, easy to make, and easily adaptable to suit your personal preferences. This summery sweet pea prosciutto rice salad is light, healthy and delicious. Serve at your next family picnic or BBQ as a main meal or as a refreshing side dish.
This recipe calls for arborio rice, which when cooked ‘al dente’ has a slight bite, giving the salad some texture. However, feel free to substitute arborio with different rice grains-they have a variety of flavours and textures, which can add a ton of flavour in a rice salad. Also, it is essential that you use a good quality extra virgin olive oil, since the overall flavour of the rice itself really depends on the oil, spices and Parmesan.
Save yourself some time and energy by preparing this salad in two easy steps. Boil the rice in evening and store overnight in the fridge. The following day, simply add the thawed peas, chopped prosciutto and remaining ingredients. This sweet pea prosciutto salad is best served at room temperature. Personalize this recipe by adding any of your favourite ingredients, such as; grilled zucchini, eggplant, or red peppers, grilled chicken, green or black olives, roasted pine nuts or pepitas, feta or goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, flaked tuna, fresh herbs, such as basil, thyme, or parsley, fresh lemon juice and/or lemon zest.
This looks absolutely delicious, the perfect addition to my summer recipes I love to prepare! 🙂
Oh how delicious does this look? I’ve never actually tried a rice salad before, I need to give it a go 🙂
It’s so light and refreshing! I always make them in the summer!
Interesting! I want to try a veggie version of this rice salad! 🙂
Grilled veggies are delicious in this salad!
That looks really good for a hot day. Great for a picnic lunch or on the patio. Would go great with some cold sandwiches or all by itself. Have to try this recipe.
What a great way to add veggies. My kids would love this dish as they love proscuitto.
Yum! Love all the add in ingredients. You could use this base recipe and then change it up for a totally different taste.
Definitely! I’ve played with the additional ingredients that are listed many times.
This looks and sounds amazing to eat for dinner!! My husband
would love this recipe as well.
Omg this looks absolutely delicious!!! I will have to pin this so I can try it out at one of my many bbq’s I’m hosting this summer!! Too yummy!
Thanks for pinning and sharing!
What a fresh Spring salad that I can eat throughout the Summer! I love peas and the addition of prosciutto for some protein!
It really is fresh and light! Chopped grilled chicken works well too!
Looks so quick and easy to make. And it looks super delicious too – which is always key haha.
This is an awesome dinner idea. You could do so much with this recipe by adding different ingredients!
That looks so good. I love the combination of peas and prosciutto.
It looks so delicious! I love that there are so many ways you can change it up and personalize it to your tastes.
Definitely! You could make it differente very time!
Cold salads are my go-to meals during the summer. Add some pasta and I’m in heaven. Orzo is a favorite of mine.
I love risotto- I need all of your recipes, every one of them
Lol, thanks Terri!
Yummy – I do love risotto but it is a bit of a fag isn’t it? And frozen peas have been a must this year as the fresh ones have for some reason been really rubbish. Thanks so much for sharing at the Friday Baby Shower, Alice @ Mums Make Lists x
I actually don’t mind making risottos but once in a while a quicker recipe works for me 😉