Ingredients for - Chicken-and-Rice Salad with Pesto Yogurt Dressing

1. 1 1/2 c. long-grain rice
2. 3/4 c. plain yogurt
3. 1/2 c. store-bought or homemade pesto
4. 1/2 tsp. salt
5. 1/4 tsp. fresh-ground black pepper
6. 1 roasted chicken

How to cook deliciously - Chicken-and-Rice Salad with Pesto Yogurt Dressing

1 . Stage

Bring a medium pot of boiling, salted water to a boil. Stir in the rice and boil until just done, 10 to 12 minutes. Drain. Rinse with cold water and drain thoroughly.

2 . Stage

In a large serving bowl, whisk together the yogurt, pesto, salt, and pepper. Add the chicken and the rice and toss to combine.

3 . Stage

Serve With: Pesto

4 . Stage

Wine Recommendation: Both the dominant herbal flavor of the pesto and the yogurt's acidic tang suggest a sauvignon blanc-based wine. Once again, look to the Loire, sauvignon's ancestral home, for an herbal, grassy, citrusy Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé.