Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, healthy summer quinoa chickpea salad!. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
With healthy, gluten-free, and vegan options, there's something for everyone here! This healthy quinoa chickpea salad is loaded with veggies and makes a light and delicious lunch option that can be made ahead of time for easy lunches throughout the week. Lemony Chickpea Quinoa Salad with cucumber, tomato, kalamata olives dill, parsley w/Preserved Lemon Dressing.
Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook healthy summer quinoa chickpea salad! using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!:
- Get 1 cup Cooked Quinoa
- Make ready 1 can Chickpeas
- Take 1/2 cup Chopped Carrots
- Make ready 1/2 cup Chopped Cucumber
- Prepare 1/2 cup Chopped Tomatos (or use cherry tomatoes)
- Prepare 1 Avacado (chopped)
- Make ready 1 Fresh Lemon (for lemon juice)
- Make ready 1 tsp Olive Oil
The quinoa and chickpeas have a more nutty flavor, while the sun-dried tomatoes add a more salty, savory flavor, which perfectly rounds up this summer In the meantime, rinse the chickpeas under running water and place them into a salad bowl. Cut the sun-dried tomatoes into stripes and add them. Quinoa is wonderful in salads such as Greek Quinoa Salad and Asian Quinoa Salad as well as baked dishes such as Spinach and Artichoke Quinoa Bake. To make this Quinoa, Kale and Chickpea Salad, I first prepare the quinoa according to the package directions and finely chop the kale.
Instructions to make Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!:
- Cook 1 cup of quinoa in water (follow directions on package) I used about 7 tablespoons of raw quinoa and added a pinch of salt in the water
- Drain and rinse well the one can of chickpeas and set in the fridge until needed so it cools
- After quinoa is cooked pour into a bowl and set in fridge also for the mean time
- Now's a good time to chop up all your veggies (save the avacado for last)
- Once everything is ready combine all ingredients together in a large bowl and squeeze a whole lemons worth of juice on top and add in the oil
- Gentally toss the salad and it's ready go!
Quinoa salads are one of my favorite dishes to put together. This easy Lemon Quinoa and Chickpea salad recipe is a one pot meal that you can throw together in Quinoa, chickpeas and diced carrots, bell peppers, scallions and big squeeze of lemon make this a light, well-balanced, healthy main! So anyhoo, this bowl of quinoa is certainly a MEAL. It has chicken and beans and bacon and corn and roasted red peppers and I can't even think of one more thing that it might need. The best Salads can be so tasty.very healthy, colorful and delicious salad.
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