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Quinoa Vegetable Salad
JANELLECOLE
"This is a wonderful dish--light and very tasty! My four kids (ages 2-7) ate it up and asked for more!"
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Ingredients
1 h 30 m servings 148 calsOriginal recipe yields 12 servings (5 cups)
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- Heat the canola oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir the garlic and 1/4 cup onion in the hot oil until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour in the water, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and bring to a boil; stir the quinoa into the mixture, reduce heat to medium-low, and cover. Simmer until the quinoa is tender, about 20 minutes. Drain any remaining water from the quinoa with a mesh strainer and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Refrigerate until cold.
- Stir the tomato, carrots, bell pepper, cucumber, corn, and 1/4 cup red onion into the chilled quinoa. Season with cilantro, mint, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Drizzle the olive oil and balsamic vinegar over the salad; gently stir until evenly mixed.
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- Aluminum foil helps keep food moist, ensures it cooks evenly, keeps leftovers fresh, and makes clean-up easy.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 148 calories; 4.5 g fat; 22.9 g carbohydrates; 4.6 g protein; 0 mg cholesterol; 592 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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Most helpful positive review
9/12/2010
FOR WARM QUINOA VEGETABLE SALAD: I do not like cold salads/hard veggies so I made warm version of this! All you have to do is heat some oil in a pan and fry the bell peppers and carrots. Once th...
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11/23/2010
I really don't think the carrots worked with the balsamic, and that the recipe was overly quinoa heavy. Should I make the dish again, I'm definitely going to cut down on the quinoa, double the v...
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9/12/2010
FOR WARM QUINOA VEGETABLE SALAD: I do not like cold salads/hard veggies so I made warm version of this! All you have to do is heat some oil in a pan and fry the bell peppers and carrots. Once th...
8/4/2009
It was a great quinoa salad, i used low sodium chicken broth, instead of water, add red & green peppers w/the cucumber,and follow the recipe , my son made an omelete and stuffed it w/ the salad...
10/6/2010
This recipe can be very forgiving. Quinoa such a heathy, easy to use grain that is GLUTEN FREE. Toss in any vegetables using vegetable broth makes it VEGETARIAN. Omitting tomatoes and onions ma...
1/26/2011
I cut the recipe in half and still it was several meals or the two of us. Very good and "different.:
9/18/2009
It was so yummy! I brought it to work and they just gobbled it up :) I accidently took red bell pepper instead of yellow one, but it was still tasty. My husband is not fond of vegetables, but h...
1/31/2012
Just made this and it's really great. The only reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is the saltiness of the dish. I used the 2 teaspoons as instructed when cooking the quinoa. Fortunately I tes...
9/30/2010
Excellent! The bf and I really loved this one. I didn't have any mint, so I used a little extra cilantro. I also brightened it up with about 1 TBSP of fresh lemon juice and added a couple fin...
8/10/2012
This was wonderful!! I cooked the quinoa with whey leftover from making cheese. I had no cucumber, so I used celery, no red onion so I used scallions, and substituted basil for the cilantro an...
5/22/2012
Wow! I've had quinoa in the past - prepared very well and prepared very badly. This is the most flavorful recipe I've tasted. It was my first time cooking quinoa myself, and I was surprised at h...