Summer Glow Quinoa Salad

Summer Glow Quinoa Salad – for when you lot desire to eat salubrious as well as non last sorry nigh it! This salad is loaded alongside fresh summertime range as well as tin forcefulness out easily last customized alongside your favorite grains as well as veggies.

Okay, this recipe is SO uncomplicated that I almost experience weird nigh sharing it. But it’s also actually proficient as well as hence how could I non portion it! This salad is basically your blank canvas. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure salad. I telephone phone it Summer Glow Quinoa Salad non because it volition literally brand you lot glow (but wouldn’t that last neat!) but because it’s loaded alongside fresh good-for-you ingredients that brand salubrious eating a petty less drab!

Use whatever grains you lot desire – farro, couscous, rice, as well as quinoa are all slap-up options. I prefer a mix of quinoa as well as chocolate-brown rice. Choose whatever veggies you lot want, too! I went alongside a mix of fresh cherry tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, as well as a overnice ripe avocado!

 

The clandestine to this recipe is all inwards the dressing. It’s an tardily break that you lot milkshake upwardly inwards a jounce as well as pour over the exceed of the salad for that added zing factor. Fresh, lemony, zingy – yum! The cherry on exceed alongside this dressing is the fresh parsley!

 

I love adding fresh parsley to dressings as well as salads similar this because it adds an extra popular of flavor! It’s super convenient that I plough over to convey my ain petty herb garden on our patio (thanks, Mom!). If you lot don’t convey your ain herbs, delight halt reading this as well as acquire to the shop NOW as well as acquire yourself some. Rosemary, basil, thyme, sage, as well as parsley – your basic greenish pollex starter pack.

It’s a lot to a greater extent than cheap to convey a planter total of fresh herbs on your ain porch than to purchase a petty pack of herbs at the shop every fourth dimension you lot desire to purpose them inwards a recipe. Trust me – I learned the difficult way. And I’m non a gardener past times whatever agency – but these are pretty basic herbs that are pretty tardily to piece of occupation along alive.

Pro tip: If you lot convey an Aldi nearby, they sell boxes that convey a mix of chocolate-brown rice as well as quinoa alongside dissimilar seasoning packets. I actually similar them because they’re only the perfect amount of grains for me! Buying big containers of quinoa, etc. is also a proficient thought if you lot eat lots of those grains.

Happy salad-making, friends!

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Summer Glow Quinoa Salad

A delicious salad made alongside fresh summertime vegetables as well as a zingy lemon dressing! For when you lot desire to eat salubrious as well as non last sorry nigh it. 

Course

Main Course

Cuisine

Healthy Food

Keyword

Summer Salad

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 3 bowls

Calories 629 kcal

Author Stephanie Simmons

Ingredients

• 
  1
  cup
  grain of your choice
  I used one-half chocolate-brown rice as well as one-half quinoa
  


• 
  salt + pepper
  


• 
  1/2
  tsp
  garlic powder
  


• 
  3/4
  cup
  cherry tomatoes, halved
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  diced cucumber
  


• 
  1/2
  avocado, diced
  


• 
  FOR THE DRESSING:
  


• 
  1/2
  tsp
  lemon zest
  


• 
  2
  tbsp
  lemon juice
  


• 
  2
  tbsp
  water
  


• 
  2
  tbsp
  olive oil
  


• 
  1
  tsp
  fresh parsley, chopped
  


• 
  1/2
  tsp
  minced garlic
  


• 
  1
  drizzle
  of honey
  


• 
  salt + pepper to taste
  

Instructions

1. 
   

   Cook the grains: Cook your grains of pick according to bundle directions. Season alongside the salt, pepper, as well as garlic powder. Adjust to taste. Add to a medium mixing bowl. 

   
   


2. 
   

   Make the dressing: Mix all dressing ingredients together inwards a minor jounce or tupperware container. Making certain the lid is tightly secured, milkshake it upwardly until combined. Adjust seasoning to taste. 

   
   


3. 
   

   Assemble: Stir the dressing as well as the prepared veggies together alongside the grains. Enjoy!

   
   


4. 
   

   Store: Store leftovers inwards an airtight container inwards the refrigerator for upwardly to iii days. 

   
   

Source: bluebowlrecipes.com