MEDITERRANEAN RICE BALLS - GLUTEN-FREE FINGER FOOD

The series of Gluten-free Fridays continue, today my post has a duplicate purpose, not only as a gluten-free recipe but it is also an entry for the HotM, the theme is Finger Food this month and I think an entry with gluten-free heart healthy finger food is perfect! I hope you too will join in, not only will you contribute to our recipe base with heart healthy dishes but as it is HotM's second anniversary, you can also win prizes! Check out all the details here.
I really like finger food, it is fun and easy to eat and usually it doesn't take a lot of time! And it is pretty food too, I wonder if it is because has a kind of doll's house aspect about it that I find it so inspiring to make. The little 5 year old girl in me, sitting there in her pink tutu and her fairy wand, raging to get out and run havoc in my adult life. When I was a student, I remember that me and my friends were fascinated by a woman that we used to see around who dressed exactly like a 5 year old in the middle of her pink princess phase, long blond curls á la Shirley Temple and pink and crème clothes. I don't think she was crazy, she just identified herself with that type of image. Nothing wrong with that but I just don't have that kind of character that so I hope that making finger food will keep my inner girl happy and content. I know it makes me happy!





MEDITERRANEAN RICE BALLS - GLUTEN-FREE FINGER FOOD
about 20

150 ml/0,63 cup rice of the sticky type
3 tblsp parmesan, freshly grated
1 whole sun-dried tomato, finely chopped
1 stick of celery, finely diced
50-100 ml/0,2-0,42 cup spinach, cooked
10-15 olives, chopped
1 tblsp sesame seeds, lightly toasted
salt

- Cook the rice and add the parmesan while it is still hot so that it melts and adds to the stickiness.
- Mix all the vegetable ingredients and then add the rice. Mix well.
- Form small balls of rice, if you rinse you hands now and then in water, it will be easier to make them.