Steps to Make Homemade Quinoa Salad

Quinoa Salad.

Quinoa Salad

Hey everyone, I hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, quinoa salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Quinoa Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Quinoa Salad is something that I've loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook quinoa salad using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Salad:

{Prepare 2 cup of cooked quinoa.
{Get 1/4 cup of olive oil, extra virgin.
{Take 1/2 cup of either - lemon juice or apple cider vinegar or white balsamic (the best flavor), or more depending on your taste.
{Prepare 1 tbsp of fresh parsley chopped.
{Take 1 tbsp of fresh mint or dried.
{Get 2 inch of long fresh ginger, finely diced.
{Take 1 of carrot shredded & diced.
{Prepare 1 of red pepper finely diced.
{Make ready 1 of English cucumber scooped of seeds & finely diced.
{Get 2 of celery stalks (if small or 1 lg.) finely diced.
{Make ready 1/2 of purple onion finely diced.
{Get 1 of raisins as many as you like.
{Prepare 1 of dried cranberries as many as you like.

Steps to make Quinoa Salad:

Cook quinoa as directed and allow to cool. While quinoa is cooling cut up all ingredients..
In a REALLY large bowl add cooled quinoa; add oil, stir well, add vinegar, or lemon juice and stir to incorporate. Taste and adjust flavors as needed. You will do this a few times and at the very end as well. Add enough parsley and mint to your liking. I like more mint so I add more. It's absolutely ok to use dried but rub it in between the palms of your hand to release the oils. You will need about a tablespoon of each. By all means, use more if you like - I do! If you want to REALLY wow everyone, use white balsamic vinegar!.
Add ginger and stir. Taste for flavors. Ginger will be the heat to this dish. If you want more heat, add more..
Add ALL the vegetables, raisins and cranberries. Stir really, really well. Taste and add more vinegar, or lemon, to adjust flavors for balance..
Place in refrigerator to cool. Before serving taste and adjust if needed..
This recipe is very, very versatile. Add more ingredients or change things up. It's all according to your taste..

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