It was recently pointed out to me that I’m a bowl person. It’s exactly what it sounds like: I almost always prefer a big mishmash bowl of stuff over your classic “meat and two” plate. Add to that I am a self-identified salad person, and you find yourself in the middle of a Venn diagram holding this crispy rice salad.
You, like me, may have seen crispy rice salads circulating on your social media feeds. The baked rice is such an ingenious hack because it’s relatively hands-free to make, which leaves you free to get the rest of your salad prepped. For this sweet chili crispy rice salad, I leaned into summer rolls, one of my favorite lunches, for flavor inspiration.
