Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, quinoa salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
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
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- Make ready 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
- Prepare 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
- Get 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
- Make ready 1/2 purple onion finely diced
- Take 1 raisins as many as you like
- Prepare 1 dried cranberries as many as you like
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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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