With the temperatures getting warmer, I honor myself dorsum to making salads for dinner. I similar to consume salads for dinner every bit they are filling without beingness also rich alongside also many calories.Truthfully, I am non a neat fan of garden salads. I consume them occasionally.I consume enough of greens. They cast a staple purpose of my everyday diet. But, I similar my greens cooked. I taste other varieties of salads. I brand quinoa black- edible bean salad, chickpea salad, cucumber salad, carrot salad, cabbage slaws; all of which I enjoy. Tonight I was inwards a rush. I had roughly leftover cooked quinoa inwards my fridge. I decided to brand quinoa-avocado salad. It's refreshing, wholesome, filling, quick as well as slow every bit you lot volition come across inwards the recipe below.
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
Quinoa: 1 cup
Avocado : 1 large, peeled, pit removed as well as chopped into medium sized cubes.
Cucumber: 1 small, diced
Tomato: 1 medium, diced
Raisins: 1 tsp
Parsley : 1 tbsp, chopped
Olive oil: iii tbsp
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Pepper: 1/8 tsp
Method:
Boil two cups H2O inwards a saucepan alongside 1/2 tsp salt. When the H2O comes to a boil, add together the washed quinoa, trim back the flaming to low, comprehend the saucepan as well as permit it produce for 15-20 mins. When done all the H2O should hold upward gone as well as you lot should come across modest curly strands on the quinoa. Fluff it alongside a fork/ spoon as well as piece of job along aside to cool.
Toss the chopped avocado alongside lemon juice as well as piece of job along aside.
In a salad bowl, add together the diced cucumber, tomato, cooled quinoa, raisins, parsley, olive oil, common salt as well as pepper as well as mix well. Now add together the avocados as well as lightly toss it.
Refrigerate as well as serve chilled.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Avocados discolor upon exposure to air. One agency to foreclose this is to toss it alongside lemon juice.
A neat agency to shop leftover avocado slices is to roll it inwards cling cinema inwards such a trend that the entire surface of the avocado is inwards contact alongside the cling film. This volition also foreclose it from getting discolored.
Tip for salubrious living:
Avocados as well as quinoa both belong to the nutrient category known every bit " super foods". Superfoods are foods that are nutrient-rich as well as are beneficial to one's wellness as well as well-being. Apart from beingness gluten gratuitous as well as a skillful substitute for grain, quinoa is a neat root of protein, vitamins, minerals, fiber as well as antioxidants. Avocados are rich inwards salubrious fats, protein, vitamins, poly peptide as well as dietary fiber.
Remember, piece all the higher upward benefits are true,the term "superfood" has no scientific important as well as also seems to accept been coined to a greater extent than alongside the persuasion of promoting a to a greater extent than salubrious as well as plant-based diet.
References:
http://www.livescience.com/34693-superfoods.html
http://www.doctoroz.com/slideshow/dr-ozs-10-favorite-superfoods
http://www.quinoasuperfood.com/is-quinoa-a-superfood
Food for thought:
Joy is a cyberspace of honey past times which you lot tin pick out grip of souls. Mother Teresa