Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, quinoa & feta salad with roasted vegetables. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa is a flowering plant in the amaranth family. It is a herbaceous annual plant grown as a crop primarily for its edible seeds; the seeds are rich in protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins. Quinoa is an ancient South American grain that was largely ignored for centuries.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa & feta salad with roasted vegetables using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa & feta salad with roasted vegetables:
- Take 200 g quinoa
- Take 3 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 red onion, peeled but left whole, then cut into 1cm thick round slices
- Prepare 2 peppers, red, yellow or mixture, deseeded and cut into chunky long wedges
- Take 200 g baby courgettes, halved lengthways
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves, unpeeled
- Prepare zest and juice 1 lemon
- Take pinch sugar
- Prepare small pack flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- Take 200 g pack feta cheese
Quinoa is a whole grain that is rapidly growing in popularity due to its many health benefits. Although people can cook and eat quinoa seeds in a similar way In this article, we explain the evidence-based health benefits of quinoa. We also look at the nutritional content of quinoa and how to add it to the diet. Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah or ke-NO-ah) is packed with protein, fiber and various vitamins and minerals.
Steps to make Quinoa & feta salad with roasted vegetables:
- Cook the quinoa following pack instructions, then drain really well and set aside.
- Meanwhile heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Toss the onion and peppers with 1 tbsp of the oil and seasoning on a roasting tray, then roast for 15 mins.
- Toss the courgettes and garlic with the rest of the veg and roast for another 15 mins.
- Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of their skins and mash with some seasoning. Stir in the remaining oil, lemon juice and zest and season with sugar to taste. Drizzle over the quinoa and toss together with the roasted vegetables and parsley. Crumble over the feta, toss gently again and serve.
It is also gluten-free and is recommended for people Often used as a substitute for rice, quinoa is commonly considered to be a grain and is usually referred to as such, but it is actually a seed. Quinoa (pronounced as kinwah; quinua in Spanish) is an incredibly nutritious "grain-like seed" obtained from the goosefoot family plant native to the highland plains of South-American Andes region. Ancient Incas believed quinua as "the mother grain. Chenopodium quinoa (and a related species Quinoa is highly variable due to a high complexity of different subspecies, varieties and landraces. However, in general it is undemanding and altitude-hardy.
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