QUINOA SALAD RECIPE

QUINOA SALAD

This is every healthy eaters favourite easy meal. Its versatile, simple, fun and yummy! Quinoa is an essential thing for a healthy lifestyle. Quinoa combined with nuts make a whole protein, just like rice. Its lighter and fluffier than rice though, making it easy to eat tons and use it for breakfast and light lunches. Quinoa can be sweet or salty. It doesn't have much of its own taste so have fun making it your own and use different toppings! I love cranberries and sunflower seeds in my salads. Theres a million different ways to do it though. Make it just like you would make a green salad but add two cups of quinoa to help boost the protein! Enjoy fooling around with this simple Quinoa Salad recipe :)...

RECIPE

Quinoa:

1 1/2 cups quinoa

pinch of salt

3 cups water

Vegetables:

Half a yellow pepper, diced

4 leaves of purple cabbage, sliced

1 handful of kale

1/4 purple onion, diced

handful of minced shallot

6 olives, sliced

8 cherry tomatoes, sliced

1 mushroom, diced

10 slices of cucumber

STEPS

Add 3 cups of water to a pot and a pinch of salt. Cover and bring to a boil. Once it's boiling add your 1 1/2 cups of quinoa. I use Bob Red Mills Organic Quinoa. (It tastes really good if you like plain quinoa like me!) Cover your quinoa and let it cook for 12 minutes. While thats cooking you can cut up all your veggies. Any taste great with quinoa. Get creative and color and add different things. I like using purple cabbage and kale. They have deep rich colors. It looks great if you're looking to impress.:)

I grew the cabbage and tomatoes from my backyard!

Once all your veggies are done your quinoa should be almost finish. You can stir it every once in a while just to make sure nothing is sticking. By 12 minutes most of the water should be absorbed. Lightly fluff your quinoa with a fork to ensure all the water is absorbed and to help add texture and body.

Add your vegetables and stir them in well. Add spices on top for flavour. I would recommend pepper, curry and nutritional yeast.

 Now is the fun part because you can get creative here. Hemp hearts are great for you and go awesome in salads. I pretty much put them on everything because they have such a light, nutty taste. These are my favourite :) 

I crumbled up some of the falafel that we had left over from the night before and put it on top. The perfect touch:) 

Simply Natural Organic Vinaigrette W/ Sundried Tomatoes

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