Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, quinoa and beetroot salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa and Beetroot Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Quinoa and Beetroot Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
This beet salad is tender, crisp and irresistible! The light apple cider, lime and herb dressing brings it all together. I managed to piece together this mega colorful beet salad with ingredients from the store and some substitutions based on what I had at home.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa and beetroot salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa and Beetroot Salad:
- Get For the salad-
- Take 1 beetroot, boiled and chopped
- Take 1 cup quinoa
- Take 1 cucumber, chopped
- Take 1 onion, sliced
- Take 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- Make ready For the dressing-
- Make ready 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1 garlic clove, minced
- Prepare 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Take to taste Salt and pepper
Lightly pan fry the walnuts in the coconut oil and sprinkle the chinese five spice powder over the walnuts to coat while cooking. Wash the sweet potatoes and beetroot thoroughly and dry. Halve the beetroots and sweet potatoes, then cut into large chunks. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Steps to make Quinoa and Beetroot Salad:
- Whisk all the dressing ingredients in a small bowl and keep aside.
- Wash the beetroot and cut the ends of the beet and place in a pan of boiling water and boil for 5-7 minutes and set aside.
- Bring quinoa and 2 cups water in a sauce pan over high heat.
- Reduce the heat to medium low, cover and simmer until quinoa is tender and liquid has been absorbed, about 15 minutes.
- Fluff the quinoa with the help of fork.
- In a salad bowl, add quinoa, beetroot, cucumber, onion and cilantro and mix well.
- Pour the dressing over the tossed salad and serve chilled!!.
If the dressing is too viscous, add some water. Mix dressing ingredients together, pour over the chunks of beetroot and set aside. This Beetroot Quinoa Salad sounds so healthy, skeptics might question its flavor. But trust us: This salad is seriously delicious. It's packed with flavor, thanks to the lemon juice and olive oil (and let's not forget the cheese… yes, please!).
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