Healthy Vegan Quinoa Salad
A flavorful and ultimate delicious summer salad! It tastes so very fresh and is made with seasonal ingredients that you can customize to your taste. Thanks to quinoa, the summer salad is protein-rich and satisfying. Everyone will welcome your vegan, gluten-free quinoa super salad, whether at a party as a side dish or as a refreshing lunch.
Ingredients
Für den Quinoa
- 150 g white quinoa
- 100 g red quinoa
- 1 tsp salt
Für das Dressing
- 1 organic lemon 3 Tbsp freshly sqeezed lemon juice and 1⁄2 tsp lemon zest
- 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 5 tbsp cold pressed olive oil
- 1 tsp mustard, mild
- 2 tsp nutritional yeast
- 1 small clove of garlic gepresst
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- salt & pepper
Weitere Zutaten
- 2 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 1 spring onion
- 150 g cherry tomatoes
- 250 g cucumber
- 2 tbsp raisins
- 100 g green olives
Instructions
- Rinse the white and red quinoa thoroughly in a fine-mesh sieve. Bring to the boil with 4 dl of salted water in a large pot with a lid. As soon as the water boils, turn off the heat and let it swell for 10 minutes. If there is liquid left in the pot, heat it again without the lid, let the water evaporate and stir. Then pour the quinoa into a bowl and leave to cool.
- For the dressing, put all the ingredients in a small screw-top jar, close it and shake vigorously until you got a homogeneous dressing.
- Toast the sunflower seeds in a coated frying pan without any fat added. Take them out of the pan and put them aside.
- Cut the white and the green part of the spring onion separately into rings. Briefly fry the white part in the frying pan with a bit of heat-resistant olive oil.
- Quarter the cucumber lengthwise and then cut into slices. Halve or quarter the cherry tomatoes. Get the raisins ready. Either pit the olives or tell the diners when serving that the olives are not pitted. ?
- Mix the quinoa with all ingredients including the dressing in a big bowl. Season with salt and lemon pepper. For best results, let it stand for 30 minutes before serving. Enjoy your meal!
Notes
- Don‘t Waste tip: Use the rest of the lemon for refreshing lemon water.
- Taste tip: You can serve the salad lukewarm or tempered after it has been infused for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour. This allows the flavors to combine better and to increase your taste experience.
- Use fresh vegetable according to the season
- Add your favorite herbs, fresh berries and fruit to vary the great taste experience
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