Easy Recipe: Tasty Quinoa Salad with Chick peas

Quinoa Salad with Chick peas. This healthy quinoa chickpea salad is loaded with veggies and makes a light and delicious lunch option that can be made ahead of time for easy lunches throughout the week. It's flavorful, easy and just delicious! Whenever I go to a party in the summer, I'm the one who brings a salad.

This salad is packed with protein from the quinoa and the chickpeas, vitamins from all the veggies, and has only healthy fat from the olive oil in the dressing. Make the dressing, by mixing all in a bowl. If sensitive to onions, dice, then soak in cold salted water while you chop the rest. You can have Quinoa Salad with Chick peas using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Quinoa Salad with Chick peas

1. You need 1/2 cup of Quinoa.
2. You need 1/2 cup of boiled Chick peas.
3. You need 1/2 cup of multi colour Bell peppers(cut into small cubes).
4. It’s 1/2 of of a red Apple(cut into small cubes).
5. Prepare 1 tablespoon of chopped Coriander leaves or Parsley.
6. You need 1 teaspoon of (Lemon juice to rub the apple pieces to stop oxidize).
7. It’s 1 teaspoon of Chia seeds(optional).
8. Prepare to taste of Salt.
9. It’s of For Salad dressing.
10. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Olive oil.
11. It’s 1 teaspoon of white Vinegar.
12. You need 1 teaspoon of Soya Sauce.
13. It’s 1 teaspoon of Chilli flakes.
14. You need 2 cloves of crushed Garlic.
15. It’s 1/2 teaspoon of freshly crushed Black pepper.
16. It’s to taste of Salt.

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Quinoa Salad with Chick peas instructions

1. Rinse 1/2 cup of quinoa with water and place in 1+1/2 cup of hot water in a pan..
2. Add salt and bring to boil.Keep flame in medium heat..
3. When water dries up reduce heat to low, cover and cook for about 10 minutes to cook the quinoa properly..
4. When quinoa cooks completely remove from heat, stir with a fork and keep aside to cool completely..
5. Cut the bell peppers and apples in small cubes. Rub lemon juice to the apple pieces so that they don't change colour..
6. Also arrange some boiled chick peas..
7. For the dressing take olive oil in a mixing bowl..
8. Add 2 cloves of crushed garlic, vinegar, chilli flakes and crushed black pepper..
9. Mix well and then add salt and soya sauce..
10. Stir well and then add the prepared quinoa..
11. Mix with the dressing and then add other ingredients like chick peas, capsicum or bell peppers and apples..
12. Stir well so that everything mix homogeneously..
13. Add chopped coriander leaves or parsley..
14. Mix and finally add 1 teaspoon of chia seeds..
15. Give a final toss and your healthy and delicious quinoa salad is ready to enjoy. You can happily have it as meal..

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