Quinoa Salad

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, quinoa salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Quinoa Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Quinoa Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Quinoa is a grain that has almost no flavor, but the spices add zest. Kale and Quinoa Salad This vibrant salad from The Hungry Waitress is the kind that improves with time, as the black beans, kale, tomatoes and dried cranberries all meld together with the quinoa and lemony dressing. When dry, transfer the quinoa to a large bowl. Add the cucumbers, onion, tomato, parsley, mint, olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, and pepper and toss well.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
  1. Prepare 2 cup cooked quinoa
  2. Take 1⁄4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
  3. Get 1⁄2 cup either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
  4. Get 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp fresh mint or dried
  6. Prepare 2 inch long fresh ginger, finely diced
  7. Take 1 carrot shredded & diced
  8. Take 1 red pepper finely diced
  9. Prepare 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
  10. Prepare 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
  11. Take 1⁄2 purple onion finely diced
  12. Take 1 raisins as many as you like
  13. Take 1 dried cranberries as many as you like

Pour the dressing over the salad and toss well. Rinse the quinoa in a strainer until the water runs clear. This quinoa salad is refreshing, crisp and delicious. It's made simply with fresh cucumber, red bell pepper, red onion, chickpeas, fresh parsley and a garlicky olive oil and lemon dressing.

Steps to make Quinoa Salad:
  1. Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients.
  2. 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!
  3. Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more.
  4. Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance.
  5. Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed.
  6. This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste.

This quinoa salad is refreshing, crisp and delicious. It's made simply with fresh cucumber, red bell pepper, red onion, chickpeas, fresh parsley and a garlicky olive oil and lemon dressing. The salad sort of reminds me of tabouleh, an herbed Lebanese salad with tomatoes and bulgur. The Best Quinoa Salad Stir spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and green onions into quinoa. In a small bowl, whisk dressing ingredients until blended.

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