Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, quinoa and beetroot salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Quinoa and Beetroot Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Quinoa and Beetroot Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook quinoa and beetroot salad using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa and Beetroot Salad:
- Get For the salad-
- Make ready 1 beetroot, boiled and chopped
- Prepare 1 cup quinoa
- Take 1 cucumber, chopped
- Prepare 1 onion, sliced
- Prepare 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- Prepare For the dressing-
- Take 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1 garlic clove, minced
- Take 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Make ready 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.
Instructions 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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