Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, quinoa salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Quinoa Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
- Prepare cooked quinoa
- Prepare olive oil, extra virgin
- Take either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
- Make ready fresh parsley chopped
- Make ready fresh mint or dried
- Get long fresh ginger, finely diced
- Get carrot shredded & diced
- Prepare red pepper finely diced
- Get English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
- Make ready celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
- Get purple onion finely diced
- Prepare raisins as many as you like
- Make ready dried cranberries as many as you like
Steps to make Quinoa Salad:
- Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients.
- In a REALLY large bowl add cooled quinoa; add oil, stir well, add vinegar, or lemon juice and stir to incorporate. Taste and adjust flavors as needed. You will do this a few times and at the very end as well. Add enough parsley and mint to your liking. I like more mint so I add more. It's absolutely ok to use dried but rub it in between the palms of your hand to release the oils. You will need about a tablespoon of each. By all means, use more if you like - I do! If you want to REALLY wow everyone, use white balsamic vinegar!
- Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more.
- Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance.
- Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed.
- This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste.
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