Simple Way to Make Homemade Quinoa Salad

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, quinoa salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Quinoa Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Quinoa Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:

1. Take 2 cup cooked quinoa
2. Take 1/4 cup olive oil, extra virgin
3. Get 1/2 cup either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste
4. Prepare 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
5. Make ready 1 tbsp fresh mint or dried
6. Get 2 inch long fresh ginger, finely diced
7. Make ready 1 carrot shredded & diced
8. Prepare 1 red pepper finely diced
9. Make ready 1 English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced
10. Prepare 2 celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced
11. Prepare 1/2 purple onion finely diced
12. Get 1 raisins as many as you like
13. Get 1 dried cranberries as many as you like

Steps to make Quinoa Salad:

1. Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients.
2. In a REALLY large bowl add cooled quinoa; add oil, stir well, add vinegar, or lemon juice and stir to incorporate. Taste and adjust flavors as needed. You will do this a few times and at the very end as well. Add enough parsley and mint to your liking. I like more mint so I add more. It's absolutely ok to use dried but rub it in between the palms of your hand to release the oils. You will need about a tablespoon of each. By all means, use more if you like - I do! If you want to REALLY wow everyone, use white balsamic vinegar!
3. Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more.
4. Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance.
5. Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed.
6. This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste.

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