Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Quinoa salad is a healthy and delicious salad. This bright and colorful salad is also a great summertime recipe. For this particular salad, I made my own homemade dressing with ginger. Ginger gives a refreshing kick to the salad. Quinoa is naturally gluten free and also high in protein.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- 1 cup water
- 1 large romaine lettuce chopped, discard the outside leaves
- 2 cup arugula
- 1 cup English cucumber cut into 1/4-inch cubes
- 1 medium size tomato diced
- 1 orange peeled and diced
- About 1/4 cup feta cheese
Dressing
- 1 tablespoon vinegar, I am using rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon mustard (rai) powder
- 1 teaspoon ginger juice*
Instructions
- For dressing: add all the dressing ingredients together mix it well making sure sugar is dissolved. Set aside. * To make ginger juice shred the ginger using fine shredder or zester, and squeeze the juice with fingers.
- Bring quinoa and water to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until all the water has been absorbed, this will take about 12 minutes. Set aside to cool.
- In a salad bowl layered all the ingredients, spread the lettuce, arugula, quinoa save about 1/4 cup, then cucumber, tomatoes, and orange. Drizzle the salad dressing, sprinkle the saved quinoa and the last spread the feta cheese.
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What is ginger juice? There is an asterisk after it, but no information. Love your recipes!
I can’t wait to try this. Thanks Manjula 🙂
Thank you! I can’t wait to try this with company coming over this week. And the three feet of snow outside only make it more enticing!
Celeste, Some time I miss snow, we used to live Michigan.
I love this salad. I keep prepped ingredients separate so I can take it to work. I just put it all together when I’m ready to eat it.
Marvelous ingredients and by looking at the image can’t resist myself to give it a try too. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Whats mustard powder? Can I make it at home? If yes how?
Also, fresh oranges tend to turn bitter if kept open. So do I need to add it just before serving?
Dia, yes you can grind the black mustard seeds, yes you can add oranges just before serving.