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How to Make My Favourite Quinoa Salad!

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Cook quinoa with 1.5 cups water and pinch salt. See my how to cook quinoa guide for more info!

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Once the quinoa's cooking time is done put peas on top and lid on for it's resting time of 10 mins. This will defrost the peas and cool down the quinoa at the same time!

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Chop tomatoes

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Cut avocado in half

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Follow the knife around the stone. Then twist the 2 halves apart.

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Like so

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Tap the knife firmly into the stone.

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Twist the knife, which will dislodge the stone. Remove

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Cut the flesh of your avocado in diagonal lines! Mind your hand! Don't cut through the skin of the avocado!

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Cut more lines cross ways

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Using a spoon follow the skin of the avocado to remove the flesh

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Move the spoon all the way round to loosen all the avocado

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Poor into a large bowl with the cucumber and tomato!

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Mix the peas through the quinoa

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Cut the cucumber lengthways 1/3 down

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Make another cut to 1/3 of the way down

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One more! If its a big cucumber you may want more cuts! Depends what size you like your dice!

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Chop!

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Add to bowl

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Add juice of 1 lemon

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Add a good drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper

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Add quinoa and peas

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Stir gently, taste and check your happy with the seasoning

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Enjoy warm now or cold later! :-) make an extra big batch and take it to work for a packed lunch!

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You can add what ever you like to this really! I like adding frozen spinach too! Let me know how you get on! :-)

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1 Cup Quinoa (uncooked)

2 Tomatoes

1 Ripe avocado

⅓ Cucumber

1 Lemon juiced

Olive oil

Salt and pepper

1 Cup Frozen peas

Easy instructions!! Can't wait to make it! Thanks for sharing!

Janeen Mcglinchey 4 weeks ago

Wow, great this is great thank you so much 😊

Crystal Rose 10 months ago

Hey Heidi! You're more than welcome! :-) I do a lot of healthy tasty food so keep an eye out! :-)

Alex's Supper Club (author) 10 months ago

Thanks for this variation! It's a low fat meal! (avocado is high in fat... Not at all sure just how much fat there is, but I am hoping it will be something I can easily eat without a problem). I just cannot consume foods that are medium to high in fats. Apparently my stomach will not tolerate it. Thanks so much for this!!!

Heidi Feldman 10 months ago

Thanks Thais :-)

Alex's Supper Club (author) 10 months ago

Hey Suzanne enjoy! Quinoa is great for vegans! Try mixing it up! Add chopped nuts to, lots of herbs, olives, sundried tomatoes....

Alex's Supper Club (author) 10 months ago

I make a similar one but with no cucumbers, lots of lemon juice and sometimes some olives :). Love it. Thank you for sharing.

Thais Marchese 10 months ago

Will be making this,, great for me as I'm vegan.

Suzanne Wakeling 10 months ago

Absolutely! Great point! :-)

Alex's Supper Club (author) 10 months ago

Using broth instead of water is a nice upgrade, I've tried veg and chicken...

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Cool! :-)

Alex's Supper Club (author) 10 months ago

I grab the blade with thumb and forefinger, from the top in this picture, so my finger tips touch the seed. Then pinching the blade will gently dislodge the seed. Works on knifes you can't flex...

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