Greek Style Quinoa Salad
Greek Style Quinoa Salad

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This Greek quinoa salad includes tomatoes, kalamata olives, and feta cheese creating a Mediterranean-inspired, gluten-free salad. This Greek Quinoa Salad is simple to make and is perfect for any Memorial Day party. This Greek Quinoa Salad has all of the same flavors as a You can also serve this Greek Quinoa Salad as a main dish.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have greek style quinoa salad using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Style Quinoa Salad:
  1. Take Salad :
  2. Get 3 cups cooked and cooled quinoa (1 cup uncooked)
  3. Take 1 can (15 oz.) chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  4. Take 1 small bell pepper, diced (I use either yellow or orange)
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 cup quartered English cucumbers
  6. Prepare 1/2 cup diced red onion
  7. Prepare 1/2 cup quartered grape tomatoes
  8. Take 1/4 cup sliced kalamata olives
  9. Take Feta cheese, for serving
  10. Make ready Dressing :
  11. Take 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  12. Take 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
  13. Prepare Juice from 1/2 lemon
  14. Get 1 clove garlic, grated
  15. Make ready 1 tsp. honey
  16. Take 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
  17. Prepare 1/4 tsp. each dried basil, dried dill, black pepper, salt

Heat oil in a saute pan. Add eggplant and saute until caramelized. Add remaining ingredients and season with salt and pepper. This salad is also suitable if you are doing a juice feast, where you are drinking juices and eating clean wholesome foods.

Steps to make Greek Style Quinoa Salad:
  1. Chop and place all of your veggies in a large bowl. I'm not a fan of olives, so I generally leave them out.
  2. Stir in the cooked quinoa and the drained and rinsed chickpeas.
  3. Whisk together all of the dressing ingredients.
  4. Pour the dressing over the quinoa and veggies and toss to evenly coat.
  5. That's it! I would recommend letting this chill for a couple of hours before eating, so the flavors have time to steep together. Store this in a large airtight container in the fridge. Or if meal prepping, go ahead and portion out the salad evenly into 6 individual sized containers.
  6. Serve it up with some feta cheese sprinkled over the top.

Recipe for my favorite Greek-style quinoa salad. This quinoa greek salad is the perfect blend of savory ingredients tossed with protein-packed quinoa and chickpeas. It's flavorful, easy and just delicious! This Quinoa Greek Salad is a great vegetarian lunch or a perfect healthy side dish. Containing all your favourite Greek flavours, its light and delicious!

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