Wild Rice and Cucumber Salad Recipe

Celebrate the season with our summer side dish recipes.

One of our pasta salads will complement anything you serve it with.

As a side dish or the main entree, check out our salad recipes.

Hot Liquid Cooking Techniques for Grain | Cooking Wild Rice The three basic techniques for cooking wild rice with hot liquid are boiling, absorption, and steaming, which are perhaps the most popular methods for cooking most whole grains.

Salad Dressing Selection | Types of Salad Dressing | How to Dress a Salad A type of sauce that may use mayonnaise or a vinaigrette combined with other ingredients to create a topping or flavoring that can be mixed into salad greens or salad items being prepared.

Making this Blueberry Pasta Salad recipe will become a summer time favorite. Follow the instructions below create a pasta salad that is quick and easy. Blueberry Pasta Salad This recipe calls for dried blueberries, which adds flavor and texture to the salad.

Preparing Fried Rice with Uncooked Rice | Preparing Fried Rice with Previously Cooked Rice There are many methods used for preparing fried rice recipes, but two methods that combine the moist heat methods of boiling/absorption/steaming and the dry heat methods of frying/stir-frying are among the most popular.

Steaming Rice with a Bamboo Steamer | Steaming Rice with an Electric Steamer Steaming is a technique for cooking rice that is very popular in Asian countries. It produces perfectly cooked rice, but the method can be very time consuming.

Pasta made with wild rice flour. It is brown in color and has a nice nutty flavor. Wild rice pasta that is made with only wild rice flour would be gluten-free pasta.

A type of wheat bread enhanced with the addition of cooked wild rice. The wild rice provides a delicious, nutty flavor and interesting texture to the bread.

A long-grain aromatic rice that is a hybrid variety of Della rice, which is popular in the southern U.S.

A grain-like plant that is not actually a type of rice, but an aquatic grass bearing edible seeds that grows in wild marshy areas of fresh water lakes and rivers.

A flavorful rice from South America. The grains are very long and thin. Surinam rice is highly sought after, but it is difficult to find in the United States.