Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, quinoa salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Quinoa Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
Guide to Make Quinoa Salad
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
Take 2 cup cooked quinoa
Prepare 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
Prepare 1/2 cup either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
Take 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
Get 1 tbsp fresh mint or dried
Take 2 inch long fresh ginger, finely diced
Get 1 carrot shredded & diced
Get 1 red pepper finely diced
Make ready 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
Take 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
Prepare 1/2 purple onion finely diced
Get 1 raisins as many as you like
Get 1 dried cranberries as many as you like
Instructions
Instructions 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.
As simple as that Simple Way to Make Quinoa Salad
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