Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Healthy quinoa salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Healthy quinoa salad is something that I have loved my entire life.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook healthy quinoa salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy quinoa salad:
- Make ready 5 tablespoons olive oil (for dressing)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Apple cider vinegar (for dressing)
- Get 3 cloves garlic (for dressing)
- Get 0.5 lemon juiced (for dressing)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons 0% Greek yogurt (for dressing)
- Prepare 1 cup quinoa (uncooked)
- Prepare 1 red bell pepper
- Take 1 yellow bell pepper
- Get 1.5 cups halved grape tomatoes
- Make ready .25 cup green olives
- Prepare 3 tablespoons chopped parsley
- Get 2 tablespoons fresh dill
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
- Get Top with pumpkin seeds (optional)
Add the quinoa, stir once, and return to a boil. Strain and rinse well with cold water, shaking the sieve well to remove all moisture. This quinoa salad recipe is the best! Everyone loves this healthy quinoa salad made with quinoa, chickpeas, red bell pepper, cucumber, parsley and lemon.
Instructions to make Healthy quinoa salad:
- Measure out 1cup of quinoa and follow the cooking instruction on the package.
- Combine olive oil, vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, and Greek yogurt in a medium sized bowl and whisk until combined. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Once the quinoa has finished cooking, allow to cool completely before proceeding.
- Dice both bell peppers, halve the tomatoes and remove the pits from the olives if necessary. You may also roughly chop the parsley and dill at this time.
- Once the quinoa has cooled, transfer it to a large mixing bowl. Add the herbs, vegetables and dressing and stir the salad until all of the ingredients combined.
- Be sure to taste the salad before serving to be sure it is seasoned to your liking. If you are satisfied both the taste, you may either top it with the pumpkin seeds and serve it immediately or you may store it and eat it later. Enjoy!
It's vegan and gluten free, too! This healthy quinoa salad is the perfect base recipe for so many delicious combinations! As written, this is a vegan quinoa salad, but it doesn't have to be. Use this recipe as your baseline, and then have fun and make it your own. Here are some ideas: Quinoa Salad with Avocado; Quinoa Salad with Chicken (make it a meal in itself!) Quinoa Salad with dried cranberries; Quinoa Salad with feta or goat cheese Quinoa Salad Variations.
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