I had some white rice left over the other day and what better way to use it than to make a fresh, light and colorful rice salad. Well, here is the result of an original mix of ingredients: the rice salad with tuna and avocado that also has a little crab sticks and corn, a delight!
Stay and learn a new way of eating rice, if you wonder how to prepare rice salad, here is the answer so get down to work and cook!
Ingredients to make Rice, Tuna and Avocado Salad:
- 45 grams of cooked rice
- ½ Avocado or Avocado
- ½ can of sweet corn
- 3 crab sticks
- 1 can of natural prickly pear
- 1 boiled egg
How to make Rice, Tuna and Avocado Salad:
As I always say in all my recipes, the first thing you have to do is get all the ingredients ready. So, for the rice you can use the rice that you have left over from the previous day or simply cook a portion or what you need of white rice.
As for the boiled egg, if you are in doubt how to do it, you can take a look at the perfect boiled eggs article, where we give you the tricks to cook hard boiled eggs to perfection.
With everything already on the work table, we will start by finely chopping the crab sticks. The amount always to taste, as well as the type of cut. I prefer to cut it very thin but if you want you can leave it in larger pieces. Then we do the same with the avocado and the boiled egg, but in this case I do recommend cutting these ingredients into medium pieces. As seen in the picture.
To start assembling the salad and for all the ingredients to be distributed elegantly, place the rice in a bowl and mix first with the previously drained tuna and the crab sticks.
Remember that this rice salad is a cold salad so it is important that the rice is cold or at room temperature when mixing with the other ingredients.
Then add the corn and the pieces of hard-boiled egg. Mix these ingredients, stirring gently to prevent the eggs from breaking. Take advantage and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Divide the tuna rice salad among plates and set aside the avocado chunks.
If you prefer, you can mix everything together in the previous step, but I like it better this way because that way I avoid breaking the avocado or forming a paste when crushing it with the other ingredients.
And now you have a delicious rice, tuna and avocado salad ready. I have added a little green apple dressing to give it an extra touch but this ingredient is complementary, so you can also use homemade mayonnaise or lemon, although without anything it is also perfect.
