Greek Quinoa Salad
From roqc 14 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Qinoa (keen-wah) cooks like rice but has many other healthy properties, including being gluten-free.
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa shopping list
- 2 cups water shopping list
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice shopping list
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano shopping list
- 1 garlic clove, minced shopping list
- 1/2 cup kalamata olive, pitted shopping list
- 1 bunch scallion shopping list
- 1 cucumber, sliced shopping list
- 1 pint grape tomatoes, halved shopping list
- 7 ounces fat-free crumbled feta cheese shopping list
- 1/2 red onion, sliced in rings shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Bring 2 cups water to boil in a medium saucepan.
- Add quinoa, cover tightly and reduce to a simmer.
- Cook 15 minutes or until quinoa is almost translucent. Once cooking is finished, cool the quinoa in the freezer for 15 minutes while preparing the other ingredients.
- In a small bowl combine olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, and garlic. Toss with quinoa.
- Place scallions, cucumber slices, grape tomatoes, red onion, feta cheese and kalamata olives together in a large bowl, add quinoa and gently toss everything together. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
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