I spent the weekend in dublin with my sister and indulged in everything chocolate, alcohol and high calorie based so I'm back to reality today so I started it off with this super salad. Quinoa being the star of this dish is a super super food with a load of health benefits which I googled haha. But I read it all and it sounds great. My original reason for using this is because it keeps me fuller longer with out the calories which means I'll eat less between meals. The key to cooking with quinoa is to pack it with loads of flavor because it quite a tasteless grain, I've added loads of herbs and a chilli dressing to mine.
So here we go, zee ingredients:
Tricolour or regular quinoa. Sweet potato and red pepper chopped. Toasted pumpkin seeds and almonds. Stock cube
Dressing! (Optional) or if you don't like chilli just replace it with garlic or ginger. A bit of lime juice is great addition here too. Love this dressing, no oil and can be used on all salads.
Bunch of fresh coriander and mint, chopped.
Zee method
Cook your quinoa to packet instructions, mine was 1part grain to 2parts water. I use a cup measure as 1 part. For this salad I did 2 parts quinoa. This grain is great but super plain so I add half a veg stock cube into my water for extra flavor. So cook away and leave to rest on the pot.
While that's on the hob,chop your veg (butternut squash is great here also) and pop in the oven at 190 for bout 15/20 mins, the smaller the chop the less time it takes. I seasoned mine with salt and pepper.
Everything is cooking away so make ur dressing as instructed by the picture above. And get your herbs ready, chop everything leaves and stalks.
When your veg is nearly cooked threw (check potatoes hardness) pop ur seeds and nuts in for literally 3-4 mins, watch these. They burn so easily.
Now once everything is done, put them all into a big bowl, mix it up, let it cool and enjoy. For lunch I'll have this on its own, maybe adding fresh salad like cucumber and tomatoes. For dinner I'll serve this with grilled or roast chicken. Yummy.
As always, happy cooking, happy eating.
Sally xxx
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