Quinoa Salad w Black Beans and Cilantro
From kel888 14 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is the best salad ever! It would be great to take to a cook out and show off to your friends--I know I am going to. It is healthy and very refreshing, a must try.
Ingredients
- 1 can black beans drained shopping list
- 1 tomato diced shopping list
- 1/2 cucumber sliced in half or fours--sometimes I put the whole cucumber shopping list
- parsley shopping list
- cilantro shopping list
- avocado (optional- i never put it in) shopping list
- 1 cup quinoa shopping list
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard shopping list
- 1/4 cup basalmic vinegar shopping list
- 1/2 cup olive oil shopping list
- 1 garlic clove shopping list
- 2 green onions shopping list
- red chili ( crushed red) a splash of it for the dressing shopping list
How to make it
- Boil 1 cup Quinoa with 2 cups water and salt for 15 minutes. The water will evaporate or be absorbed kind of like stuffing. Fluff and let cool.
- In the meantime, put the black beans, tomato, and cucumber in to a serving bowl. Chop parsley and cilantro well and add to the bowl (you may want a lot or a little it is up to you), about 5 sprigs or more of each.
- To make the dressing put the green onions, garlic clove, red chili, 3 parsley sprigs, 3 cilantro sprigs, 1 tbsp of dijon mustard into the food processor and process. Then add the basalmic and olive oil and process until mixed together well.
- Once the Quinoa is done cooking and cooled dump into the bowl and add the dressing. Stir it all together and if you would like avocado I would add it now ( to avoid it getting mooshy. Enjoy!
- I have also added a jalepeno to the dressing before with the seeds removed. This is optional.
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This one is right up my "vegetarian alley". Can't wait to make it.
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This sounds amazing. Love everything about this recipe. Will be trying soon. Great post and a very high 5.
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