Million Dollar Rice Salad – Easy Old-Fashioned Recipe

Million Dollar Rice Salad is a creamy, old-fashioned favorite loaded with delicious flavor. This easy vintage recipe is perfect for holidays and gatherings.

Why You’ll Love This Million Dollar Rice Salad

Million Dollar Rice Salad is a good salad for potluck meals, church gatherings, and picnics. This salad is great in summer or winter and for any holiday meal. My family loves it. This recipe makes a lot. It keeps well in the refrigerator and the recipe could be cut in half or even doubled for a large group or event. You can make this a day in advance too, which is always nice!

How Much Rice?

This recipe is made with 2 cups of uncooked rice. Once you cook it that will equal 4 cups of rice, so it makes a large salad. You could easily cut this recipe in half for a smaller salad. We use minute rice in this salad, but you could easily just use regular grain rice, make two cups.

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Million Dollar Rice Salad

Judy Yeager

Million Dollar Rice Salad is a creamy, old-fashioned favorite loaded with delicious flavor. This easy vintage recipe is perfect for holidays and gatherings.

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

2 hours hrs

Total Time 2 hours hrs 20 minutes mins

Course Salad

Cuisine American, southern

• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon mayonnaise or Miracle Whip
• 2 cups uncooked rice cooked (I use instant rice but could use any kind)
• 1/2 cup maraschino cherry halves about 15 whole cherries cut in half
• 1 20 ounce can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 11 ounce can mandarin oranges, drained
• 2 cups miniature marshmallows
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream whipped or can use cool whip
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts walnuts or pecans

• Mix together cream cheese, sugar and mayonnaise with mixer. Fold in cooked rice, cherry halves, pineapple, oranges and marshmallows. Add nuts. Mix with a spoon.

• Whip the cream with mixer until looks like cool whip and mix into the salad with a spoon. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.

• Makes 8 to 10 cups of salad. Enjoy!Note: You can add about any kind of fruit to this salad such as grapes or bananas.

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