Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Quinoa Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
- Make ready 2 cup cooked quinoa
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 1/2 cup either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- Take 1 tbsp fresh mint or dried
- Prepare 2 inch long fresh ginger, finely diced
- Take 1 carrot shredded & diced
- Make ready 1 red pepper finely diced
- Get 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
- Prepare 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
- Make ready 1/2 purple onion finely diced
- Prepare 1 raisins as many as you like
- Make ready 1 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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