Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, quinoa tabbouleh. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Quinoa Tabbouleh is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Quinoa Tabbouleh is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Quinoa, once a staple grain of ancient Incas, is tossed with lemon juice, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, green onions and parsley. Tabbouleh is a grain- and vegetable-based salad traditionally made with bulgur wheat. In this recipe, quinoa is first toasted to deepen its flavor, then cooked by the absorption method and combined with herbs and vegetables.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa tabbouleh using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Tabbouleh:
- Get 1 cup quinoa
- Prepare 1/2 box grape tomatoes, halved
- Get 1/2 cucumber, diced
- Prepare 1/4 cup feta
- Make ready 1 juice and zest of 1 lemon
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Get 1 salt to taste
- Make ready 3 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- Make ready 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- Prepare 1/4 cup halved kalamata olives
- Take 2 tbsp chopped jarred mild peppers
- Get 1 tbsp olive oil
Quinoa, a grain that originated in South America, is considered a superfood because it contains more protein than most grains. Cook the quinoa following pack instructions, then set aside to cool. Rinse the quinoa well and place in a pan with about double the volume of water. Turn off the heat and leave to cool slightly, then drain any remaining water.
Steps to make Quinoa Tabbouleh:
- Cook quinoa as directed. Cool by placing in a bowl and plastering up the sides. Then stick in freezer. This should cool fairly quickly. Be careful not to freeze.
- Add all other ingredients to bowl.
- Toss in cooled quinoa.
- Keep chilled in refrigerator.
- Enjoy! This is great with pitas too.
Instead of using bulgur like traditional tabbouleh, this recipe uses quinoa. It looks and tastes better than bulgur. My husband and I both love this and neither of us is vegetarian. It's a great meal for a hot summer day. The longer it sits the better it tastes.
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