Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Quinoa Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Quinoa Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
This quinoa and edamame salad is a superfood dream! Packed full of flavor and nutrients, you will want to make this time and time again! This salad can be made as a main dish, side dish, potluck, meal prep–it's pretty much a perfect salad!
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
- Take 2 cup cooked quinoa
- Get 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 1/2 cup either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh mint or dried
- Take 2 inch long fresh ginger, finely diced
- Prepare 1 carrot shredded & diced
- Take 1 red pepper finely diced
- Prepare 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
- Take 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
- Prepare 1/2 purple onion finely diced
- Make ready 1 raisins as many as you like
- Prepare 1 dried cranberries as many as you like
This colorful quinoa salad holds up well in the fridge all week long, is perfectly packable, and has enough protein and other good things to keep you satisfied. It also doesn't really take a whole lot of time to assemble, so now I really don't have any excuse not to make it before the week gets underway. Quinoa, toasted pumpkin seeds, feta and ripe watermelon make a fabulous and filling vegetarian supper that. This quinoa salad recipe is the best!
Instructions to make Quinoa Salad:
- Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients.
- In a REALLY large bowl add cooled quinoa; add oil, stir well, add vinegar, or lemon juice and stir to incorporate. Taste and adjust flavors as needed. You will do this a few times and at the very end as well. Add enough parsley and mint to your liking. I like more mint so I add more. It's absolutely ok to use dried but rub it in between the palms of your hand to release the oils. You will need about a tablespoon of each. By all means, use more if you like - I do! If you want to REALLY wow everyone, use white balsamic vinegar!
- Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more.
- Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance.
- Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed.
- This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste.
Everyone loves this healthy quinoa salad made with quinoa, chickpeas, red bell pepper, cucumber, parsley and lemon. It's vegan and gluten free, too! The amount of water you need to cook quinoa varies from brand to brand, so check package instructions for best results. Or see the last slide for no-fail quinoa cooking methods. For an easy twist, top the salad with toasted slivered almonds.
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