Fresh & Easy Summer Quinoa Salad Recipe!

by | Dec 7, 2011 | Food, Wellness Tips | 2 comments

Just whipped up this beautifully yummy, fresh and light summer quinoa salad – it’s full of nutrients and is also quite filling! It’s also super quick and easy!

Ingredients

1 x cup dry quinoa
1 x cup diced cucumber
1 x diced medium sized tomato
1/2 x diced apple
1 x tbsp pepitas
1 x tbsp sultanas
sprinkling of sesame seeds
sprinkling of dried cranberries

Cook the quinoa as per the instructions on the pack (I like to use a rice cooker as it’s very simple and I can do other things while it’s doing -its- thing). Add in the pepitas & sultanas at the very beginning so they plump up.

Once cooked, leave to cool and mix in all the other ingredients. Serve, eat and enjoy.

The best thing about this quinoa salad is that you can make it with whatever’s on hand at the time that you need to use up and the quinoa provides a perfect healthy base. It is also packed with nutrients to give you sustained energy and plenty of vitamins and minerals.

Some other ideas to add in are:

♥ Sweet potato
♥ Cashews/almonds
♥ Pieces of orange
♥ Celery
♥ Absolutely anything you want!

Hope you like it, please share your recipes below, bon appetit 🙂

Be well,

Annette

xoxo

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2 Comments

  1. Hannah

    Quinoa salads are the best and at the moment I love adding pomegrante seeds to them for a nice fruity crunch 🙂 xo

  2. Annette @ Wellness WA

    Oh wow, that would be amazing!! I haven’t seen any pomegranates for a bit but I definitely want to try that:) xx

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