Greek Style Quinoa Salad

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Greek Style Quinoa Salad is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Greek Style Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

Mix tomatoes, parsley, kalamata olives, onion, feta cheese, olive oil, vinegar, and garlic into quinoa. Squeeze lemon juice over quinoa salad, season with salt and pepper, and toss to coat. Heat a medium saucepan over medium-high. Add onion and garlic; season with salt and pepper.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have greek style quinoa salad using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Style Quinoa Salad:
  1. Get Salad :
  2. Prepare 3 cups cooked and cooled quinoa (1 cup uncooked)
  3. Prepare 1 can (15 oz.) chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  4. Take 1 small bell pepper, diced (I use either yellow or orange)
  5. Make ready 1 12 cup quartered English cucumbers
  6. Get 12 cup diced red onion
  7. Prepare 12 cup quartered grape tomatoes
  8. Get 14 cup sliced kalamata olives
  9. Take Feta cheese, for serving
  10. Make ready Dressing :
  11. Get 14 cup extra virgin olive oil
  12. Get 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
  13. Prepare Juice from 12 lemon
  14. Take 1 clove garlic, grated
  15. Take 1 tsp. honey
  16. Take 12 tsp. dried oregano
  17. Get 14 tsp. each dried basil, dried dill, black pepper, salt

Greek Quinoa Salad Ingredients This mediterranean inspired recipe combines cooked quinoa with a variety of colorful veggies and herbs, creating a flavorful quinoa salad perfect for lunch, dinner or meal prep ideas. Here is everything you will need: Quinoa - Use your favorite quinoa. Quinoa Greek Salad, a twist on traditional Greek-style salads with added quinoa for a boost of plant-based protein. A simple Mediterranean salad with romaine lettuce, kalamata olives, red onions, quinoa, lemon, and feta cheese with a lightly flavored olive oil and red wine vinegar dressing.

Instructions to make Greek Style Quinoa Salad:
  1. Chop and place all of your veggies in a large bowl. I'm not a fan of olives, so I generally leave them out.
  2. Stir in the cooked quinoa and the drained and rinsed chickpeas.
  3. Whisk together all of the dressing ingredients.
  4. Pour the dressing over the quinoa and veggies and toss to evenly coat.
  5. That's it! I would recommend letting this chill for a couple of hours before eating, so the flavors have time to steep together. Store this in a large airtight container in the fridge. Or if meal prepping, go ahead and portion out the salad evenly into 6 individual sized containers.
  6. Serve it up with some feta cheese sprinkled over the top.

Quinoa Greek Salad, a twist on traditional Greek-style salads with added quinoa for a boost of plant-based protein. A simple Mediterranean salad with romaine lettuce, kalamata olives, red onions, quinoa, lemon, and feta cheese with a lightly flavored olive oil and red wine vinegar dressing. In a large bowl, combine cooked quinoa, bell pepper, baby tomatoes, cucumber, olives, onion, and fresh herbs. In a small bowl, add the olive oil, lemon juice, raw honey, garlic, salt and pepper. Pour the dressing over the salad before serving and toss gently to combine.

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