How to Recipes/ Lunch/ Side Dishes BY:Mireille PUBLISHED: 07/15/2021 UPDATED: 01/23/2024

Rice Salad With Tuna

This rice salad with tuna recipe is a delicious salad recipe!

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A great side dish or lunch recipe. It is really easy to make and adjustable to your liking. It originates from Spain and is also known as Ensalada de Arroz con atun. You can eat it warm or cold. Ready to learn how you can make this rice salad recipe? Let’s get started!

What You Need For This Recipe

For this salad recipe, you can use the ingredients mentioned below. However, add or substitute whatever ingredients on this list. Put the following ingredients on your grocery list:

Long grain rice – use aromatic rice like Basmati or Jasmin rice. Both are long-grain and cook dry
Scallions – thinly slice the scallion
Garlic – use fresh minced garlic
Bell pepper – cut sweet red bell pepper into thin strips
Black olives – dice into small pieces
Green olives – without a pit and finely dice
Roma tomatoes – are plum and have a great taste
Tuna – use canned tuna in water. Drain before use
Parsley – to garnish use fresh parsley
Salt and pepper – season to taste

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

How To Make Rice Salad With Tuna

To make this recipe first wash the rice with warm water in a strainer. When the water is clear the rice is clean and can be cooked in a rice steamer or cook the rice in an Instant Pot, Air Fryer, Microwave or the oven.
This will take about 10-15 minutes. When the rice is done, take the steamer’s lid and let the warm air evaporate and the rice cool.
With a fork take the rice apart it will help the rice cool faster. Finely chop garlic, bell pepper, olives, and Roma tomatoes.
Take these ingredients, put them in a bowl, and stir. Finely slice the scallions and add them to the bowl as well.
Now drain the tuna from the can.
Put the tuna in the bowl and pull the tuna apart. Stir the tuna through the bowl. Finally, add the rice and stir it through thoroughly.
Season with salt and pepper to taste. Decorate with some finely chopped fresh parsley.

A Great Rice Salad Recipe

This dish is common in Andalusia the South of Spain. A great summer recipe that you can make with your favorite ingredients. You can add some olive oil and lemon juice to the recipe to give it a fresher taste.

This recipe is made with long-grain rice because of its taste but also because you can cook it dry very easily.

Cooking without a rice cooker or rice steamer is quite a challenge and more difficult. You want to use rice that is dry and doesn’t contain a lot of starch because it affects your dish.

How To Store Rice Salad With Tuna?

You have several ways to store this rice salad recipe.

Refrigerator – you can store your rice salad in the fridge for up to 2 days. Put it in an airtight food container or a Ziploc bag
Freezer – want to keep it longer you can store it in the freezer for up to 3 months and put it in a freezer-friendly container

If you serve this salad, make sure you heat it before serving so you eliminate any bacteria in the salad.

Serve Ensalada de Arroz With

You can eat this rice salad all by itself but you can serve it with e.g.:

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