Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
From sheba 16 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Sometimes I substitute lemon for the lime juice, and serve chicken or seafood on the side for a main course. Healty too!
Ingredients
- • 1 1/2 cups quinoa shopping list
- • 1 1/2 cups canned black beans, rinsed and drained shopping list
- • 1 1/2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar shopping list
- • 1 1/2 cups cooked corn (fresh, canned or frozen) shopping list
- • 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped shopping list
- • 4 scallions, chopped shopping list
- • 1 tsp. garlic, minced fine shopping list
- • 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper shopping list
- • 1/4 cup fresh coriander leaves, chopped fine shopping list
- • 1/3 cup fresh lime juice shopping list
- • 1/2 tsp. salt shopping list
- • 1 1/4 tsp. ground cumin shopping list
- • 1/3 cup olive oil shopping list
How to make it
- Rinse quinoa in a fine sieve under cold running water until water runs clear. Put quinoa in a pot with 2 1/4 cups water. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer 20 minutes or until water is absorbed and quinoa is tender. Fluff quinoa with a fork and transfer to a large bowl and allow to cool.
- While quinoa is cooking, in a small bowl toss beans with vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Add beans, corn, bell pepper, scallions, garlic, cayenne and coriander to the quinoa. Toss well.
- In a small bowl whisk together lime juice, salt, cumin and add oil in a stream while whisking. Drizzle over salad and toss well with salt and pepper.
- Salad may be made a day ahead and refrigerated, covered. Bring to room temperature before serving.
- Seasonings can be adjusted to taste, ie more cayenne or cumin
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I'm searching all around for more Quinoa recipes, because I'm trying to incorporate this into our diet. This recipes sounds tasty and easy enough.
invisiblechef
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