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Quinoa Salad
What you need:
3/4 cup uncooked quinoa
1 1/2 cups water
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained
1 carrot, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
6 cherry tomatoes, quartered
1 scallion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 small cucumber, sliced
juice from 1/2 lemon
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
dash cayenne pepper
dash cumin
salt and pepper, to taste
What you do:
1. Boil quinoa in a rice cooker or saucepan with water until all water is absorbed. Set aside to cool.
2. Combine all chopped veggies and drained beans with lemon juice, oil, vinegar and spices.
3. Toss with quinoa, add salt and pepper, to taste and serve. Good with hot sauce!
Source of recipe: I wanted to use up a bunch of ingredients, so I threw this together.
Preparation Time:
15 minutes, Cooking time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time:
15 minutes
Servings:
Recipe Category:
SO HOW'D IT GO?
Did I do something wrong?? The dressing part tasted really bad (sorry). I don't know if the apple cider vinegar overpowered the olive oil or maybe my olive oil is too strong. I can see maybe trying 1/4 cup of lemon juice and vegetable oil??
So yum and filling! Loved the crunch and the spice. The lemon juice really made it.
i love this salad!!!!! i make it all the time. perfect to whip up a big batch and have for lunch all week. i wouldn't change a thing, though you can definitely sub in different veggies. I like cucumber in mine
I made a few modifications based on what I had in the kitchen, but this combination of quinoa, black beans, lemon juice, cumin, cayenne, olive oil and assorted veggies tasted delicious. Thanks a lot.
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