Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, my famous quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Three reasons to love this recipe: This quinoa salad recipe is also very easy to toss together, especially if you use leftover quinoa (see recipe note). The recipe uses my preferred quinoa cooking method, which yields fluffy quinoa every time. This salad packs great for lunch, picnics, road trips and plane rides.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook my famous quinoa salad using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make My Famous Quinoa Salad:
- Make ready Quinoa
- Take Cucumber
- Take or more Cherry tomatoes
- Prepare Finely chopped parsley
- Make ready generous pinches Your choice of unsalted nuts (I used sunflower seeds and sliced almonds)
- Take generous pinches Dried cranberries
- Get Feta cheese (optional)
- Take Olive oil
- Get lime Lime juice (or lemon)
- Take Salt and pepper
My friend made it for a playgroup party last month and I've been making it on repeat ever since. It's the best quinoa salad I've ever had! The combination of flavors and textures is spot on! It has toasted pine nuts, sweet corn, parmesan and lots of finely chopped greens.
Steps to make My Famous Quinoa Salad:
- Put 1 part quinoa to 1 part water in a sauce pan with a pinch of salt (not listed) and bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat and simmer until the water boils off.
- When the quinoa grains open up, fluff with a fork and cool.
- While the quinoa is cooling, cube the cucumber, quarter or halve the tomatoes, and mince the parsley. Combine in a bowl with the cranberries.
- Lightly roast the nuts, cool, then add to the bowl from Step 3.
- Add the quinoa to the bowl from Step 3, then crumble in the feta cheese. Sprinkle in the lime juice and olive oil, mix, then season with salt and pepper to taste.
For today's salad, I'm keeping the kale and honeycrisps, but adding in some quinoa for satiety, some feta cubes, pistachios for savory, buttery crunch and dried tart cherries. It's all drizzled with an apple cider vinaigrette. If you love a salty+sweet combo, you will adore this. To make the best quinoa salad, keep these tips in mind: Prepare and cook the quinoa properly. We've shared an entire article showing you how to cook quinoa, but here are the main takeaways.
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