Greek Style Quinoa Salad
Greek Style Quinoa Salad

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Greek Style Quinoa Salad is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Greek Style Quinoa Salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

This Greek quinoa salad includes tomatoes, kalamata olives, and feta cheese creating a Mediterranean-inspired, gluten-free salad. Greek Quinoa Salad with chickpeas, veggies and fresh herbs is the BEST! Healthy side or main dish for potlucks, picnics and meal prep!

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have greek style quinoa salad using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Style Quinoa Salad:
  1. Prepare Salad :
  2. Take 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. Get 1/2 cup diced red onion
  7. Take 1/2 cup quartered grape tomatoes
  8. Prepare 1/4 cup sliced kalamata olives
  9. Get Feta cheese, for serving
  10. Prepare Dressing :
  11. Make ready 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
  13. Get Juice from 1/2 lemon
  14. Get 1 clove garlic, grated
  15. Prepare 1 tsp. honey
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
  17. Get 1/4 tsp. each dried basil, dried dill, black pepper, salt

Recipe for my favorite Greek-style quinoa salad. Light and healthy Greek quinoa salad with fresh vegetables and chickpeas is the perfect make-ahead lunch or side-dish. "Man, that Greek quinoa salad was so good. I could eat that every day. I love tacos - don't get me wrong - but I'd trade those in for that salad in a heartbeat!" The Greek-style Quinoa Salad recipe out of our category fruit-vegetable!

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.

Heat oil in a saute pan. Add eggplant and saute until caramelized. Add remaining ingredients and season with salt and pepper. In this episode of Conscious Cooking we show you how to make Greek style quinoa salad. This is a very flavorful and healthy salad and can be used as a full.

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