Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy summer quinoa chickpea salad!. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This healthy quinoa chickpea salad is loaded with veggies and makes a light and delicious lunch option that can be made ahead of time for easy lunches throughout the week. Make the dressing, by mixing all in a bowl. If sensitive to onions, dice, then soak in cold salted water while you chop the rest.
Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have healthy summer quinoa chickpea salad! using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!:
- Make ready 1 cup Cooked Quinoa
- Make ready 1 can Chickpeas
- Get 1/2 cup Chopped Carrots
- Take 1/2 cup Chopped Cucumber
- Take 1/2 cup Chopped Tomatos (or use cherry tomatoes)
- Prepare 1 Avacado (chopped)
- Make ready 1 Fresh Lemon (for lemon juice)
- Make ready 1 tsp Olive Oil
If it's not pre-rinsed, rinse the quinoa in a fine mesh sieve to get rid of the bitter tasting outer layer. Bring mixture to a boil over high heat. Once boiling, reduce heat to low and cover. This quinoa greek salad is the perfect blend of savory ingredients tossed with protein-packed quinoa and chickpeas.
Steps to make Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!:
- Cook 1 cup of quinoa in water (follow directions on package) I used about 7 tablespoons of raw quinoa and added a pinch of salt in the water
- Drain and rinse well the one can of chickpeas and set in the fridge until needed so it cools
- After quinoa is cooked pour into a bowl and set in fridge also for the mean time
- Now's a good time to chop up all your veggies (save the avacado for last)
- Once everything is ready combine all ingredients together in a large bowl and squeeze a whole lemons worth of juice on top and add in the oil
- Gentally toss the salad and it's ready go!
It's flavorful, easy and just delicious! Whenever I go to a party in the summer, I'm the one who brings a salad. Some chickpea salad recipes on rotation in my house, this Greek Chickpea Salad which is great for meal prep, this easy Chickpea Egg Salad and this Chickpea Tuna Salad. With summer cucumbers and tomatoes in season, I make this salad all the time. Change it up: This salad is awesome as written.
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