Quinoa Salad
Quinoa Salad

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Quinoa Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:
  1. Prepare cooked quinoa
  2. Take olive oil, extra virgin
  3. Get either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
  4. Take fresh parsley chopped
  5. Get fresh mint or dried
  6. Take long fresh ginger, finely diced
  7. Take carrot shredded & diced
  8. Take red pepper finely diced
  9. Prepare English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
  10. Take celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
  11. Take purple onion finely diced
  12. Make ready raisins as many as you like
  13. Get dried cranberries as many as you like
Steps to make Quinoa Salad:
  1. Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients.
  2. 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!
  3. Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more.
  4. Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance.
  5. Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed.
  6. This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste.

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