My Daughter and I are trying to eat more healthy so I thought I would share some pictures on Saturday's of what we've made. Most pictures are from my daughter since she takes good food pics. lol
Quinoa Salad
What You Will Need:
1/2 Cup Fresh Spinach- diced
1/2 Cup Carrots- diced
1/2 Cup Bell Pepper- diced
1/2 Cup Cucumber- diced
2 Stalks Celery- diced
1 tsp. Chicken Bullion
1/2 Cup Uncooked Quinoa
1 Cup Water
To Prepare Quinoa:
Rinse and drain quinoa. Add 1/2 cup of rinsed quinoa in a pan with 1 cup water. Add 1 tsp. Chicken bullion to the pan and cook on high heat until boiling. Turn down to medium low heat, cover and let cook for 15 minutes or until water is gone. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, add to a bowl and put into the refrigerator for 15 minutes to cool.
Mix all of the vegetables together and when the quinoa has cooled, stir it into the vegetables, breaking up any small chunks of quinoa that might have formed as it cooled.
You can serve this with any dressing you like or eat it as is like we did. I've served this as a side dish and eaten it by itself for lunch.
This makes about 4, 1 cup servings.
Each serving is about 100 Calories and 12 Carbs.
I can't say I'm a big quinoa fan, but my grocery store used to sell a curried quinoa salad that I really like. Of course, they discontinued it -- maybe I was its only fan, lol.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've tried quinoa before and it's not my thing. Maybe it would be good with rice or couscous.
ReplyDeleteI love quiona salads. My fave is a sweet one using blueberries and toasted pecans.
ReplyDeleteMy local grocery sells a quinoa blend (pre rinsed) with cous cous and baby split garbanzos, which I've made twice. I think that would work with this recipe, too, but would be more pricey. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've actually ever eaten quinoa. What does it taste like?
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