Rice salad recipes pls

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I need to make a rice salad for a BBQ tomorrow. Whenever I have made it in the past it is usually pretty boring. Other than sweetcorn I never know what to put in! Any ideas please?

Google the rice salad from Jamie's ministry of food, it's really tasty.

Ooh, I have that book! Thanks. Will dig it out.

I have two recipes for absolutely gorgeous rice salads. They are a bit of work though, but well worth it! And not your usual ones!

The first one is wild rice and you add a handful of cooked green beans, raw red paprika, half a cucumber and some iceberg lettuce (all cut up of course), 2 ripe avocados (diced up), and a can of tuna. The avocado makes it slightly creamy.

The other one is a rice-chicken salad. You boil the rice with a whole onion in and a teaspoon of curry powder. You fry the diced chicken breast with some salt and pepper. When the rice is ready, put it in a bowl (take out the onion). Add the chicken, diced pineapple, and a mixture of mayonnaise and sour cream (50/50). Add salt and pepper to taste. If you want, your sweetcorn would probably be quite nice added to it as well.

Let me know if you make any of these. They are always a hit at mine!

I'd love some ideas too - working FT now so I need some packed lunch ideas as I get really bored with sandwiches!

I really like rice with tuna.

Apologies for hijack but if anyone has any simple ideas for Couscous that'd be great :o

Oooh, I forgot I always put one or two celery stalks in as well, cut up ofcourse. In the rice-chicken salad this is for.