Quinoa Salad with Chick peas
Quinoa Salad with Chick peas

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have quinoa salad with chick peas using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad with Chick peas:
  1. Take 1/2 cup Quinoa
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup boiled Chick peas
  3. Get 1/2 cup multi colour Bell peppers(cut into small cubes)
  4. Take 1/2 of a red Apple(cut into small cubes)
  5. Make ready 1 tablespoon chopped Coriander leaves or Parsley
  6. Prepare 1 teaspoon (Lemon juice to rub the apple pieces to stop oxidize)
  7. Take 1 teaspoon Chia seeds(optional)
  8. Take to taste Salt
  9. Take For Salad dressing
  10. Get 1 tablespoon Olive oil
  11. Get 1 teaspoon white Vinegar
  12. Take 1 teaspoon Soya Sauce
  13. Prepare 1 teaspoon Chilli flakes
  14. Make ready 2 cloves crushed Garlic
  15. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon freshly crushed Black pepper
  16. Prepare to taste Salt

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Steps to make Quinoa Salad with Chick peas:
  1. Rinse 1/2 cup of quinoa with water and place in 1+1/2 cup of hot water in a pan.
  2. Add salt and bring to boil.Keep flame in medium heat.
  3. When water dries up reduce heat to low, cover and cook for about 10 minutes to cook the quinoa properly.
  4. When quinoa cooks completely remove from heat, stir with a fork and keep aside to cool completely.
  5. Cut the bell peppers and apples in small cubes. Rub lemon juice to the apple pieces so that they don't change colour.
  6. Also arrange some boiled chick peas.
  7. For the dressing take olive oil in a mixing bowl.
  8. Add 2 cloves of crushed garlic, vinegar, chilli flakes and crushed black pepper.
  9. Mix well and then add salt and soya sauce.
  10. Stir well and then add the prepared quinoa.
  11. Mix with the dressing and then add other ingredients like chick peas, capsicum or bell peppers and apples.
  12. Stir well so that everything mix homogeneously.
  13. Add chopped coriander leaves or parsley.
  14. Mix and finally add 1 teaspoon of chia seeds.
  15. Give a final toss and your healthy and delicious quinoa salad is ready to enjoy. You can happily have it as meal.

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