Quick Lemon and Garlic Quinoa Salad

"Refreshing! Good potluck pick, too!"
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Boil the water in a large stock pot.
  • Add salt and quinoa and boil for 10 minutes.
  • Drain in a strainer (like pasta).
  • Prepare dressing in a large bowl.
  • Add carrots, seeds, parsley, and cooked quinoa, and toss well.

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Reviews

  1. This was my first time making a dish using quinoa, and it was fantastic!!!! I used the dressing recipe, in which I reduced the oil to 1 tbsp. I prepared the quinoa as directed. For the salad itself I used finely chopped cucumber, diced tomato's seeds removed, and quartered grape tomatos. I added a sprinkle of feta cheese on top of each serving. It was great, the dressing was a perfect combo of flavors and it really made the salad a hit!!!!!Thanks!!!! I just made this salad again, but I omitted the oil completly and added black beans!!! It was great, a complete meal without the added fat from the oil!! Yummy
     
  2. Nice salad. I liked the crunch of the carrots and sunflower seeds. The only change I made was to cut back on the olive oil. Might be good to also add the lemon zest along with the juice.
     
  3. This is a nice, light-tasting dressing. I boiled the quinoa 10 min as instructed then added 1 cup frozen shelled edamame and 1 cup frozen corn and boiled another 3-4 min before draining. I also toasted the seeds (used 1/4 cup sunflower & 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds).<br/>This recipe invites all kinds of variations. I think next time I might add just a touch of ginger.
     
  4. We did not do sunflowers or parsley. We added black beans and carrots, also heirloom tomatos and yellow grape tomatos. I also added the dry italian salad dressing, couple of tablespoons. Topped with green onions. DELICIOUS! WOW! and easy. I might not do the soy sauce, and do vinegar, red wine.
     
  5. Like another reviewer, I added edamame, diced red peppers and corn as well as the sunflower seeds. I had no carrots. I will be making this again, thanks!
     
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Tweaks

  1. This was a very refreshing salad. We used meyer lemons from our lemon tree and omitted the parsley and sunflower seeds. I also cannot tolerate soy so we left soy sauce out but added a splash of rice wine vinegar instead. For some color and crunch, we added about a half cup of shredded red cabbage.
     

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