Salads and appetizers
Special Quinoa Salad
A special homemade quinoa salad that is very rich! Preparing quinoa is very easy, and you can add any vegetables you like after the quinoa has cooled so the vegetables do not wilt
Total time60 min
Prep10 min
Cook50 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Recipe tags
Salads and appetizersInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeEgg free
Recipe story
Quinoa salad ... one of those plant-based recipes that has become very popular, especially since quinoa is packed with protein and is suitable for dieting and exercise!!
Ingredients
- Half a cup quinoa, soaked for 15 minutes
- 1 cup water
- Corn
- Iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, or any other type, coarsely chopped
- Arugula
- Tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Radish
- Sweet red pepper
- Beetroot - optional
- Green onion leaves
- Carrot
- Dressing:
- Salt
- Lemon juice
- Pomegranate molasses
- Olive oil
- Mustard
- A pinch of black pepper
- Walnuts for garnish - optional
Method
- Soak the quinoa for 15 minutes, then rinse and drain itTimers: 15 min
- Place it in a pot with 1 cup of water, cover, and cook until it absorbs all the water
- Let it cool completely before adding it to the vegetables and assembling the salad
- In a serving bowl, arrange the lettuce, arugula, corn, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, and green onions ... you can add more vegetables as desired or leave some out
- Grate the carrot on top
- Whisk the dressing ingredients and drizzle over the top ... then garnish
- For more salads from Wotfa, here is the tabbouleh
- Also, here is the method for cabbage salad from Wotfa
Notes and serving ideas
- tabbouleh
- cabbage salad
