Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!. 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. Change it up: This salad is awesome as written. You can serve it on fresh greens with an extra drizzle of olive oil and squeeze of lemon juice for dressing.
A very simple and easy quinoa chickpea salad recipe. It's healthy, gluten-free, colourful and full of fresh herbs and flavour. I'm sure you're going to love it as much as we do. You can cook Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad!
- Prepare 1 cup of Cooked Quinoa.
- Prepare 1 can of Chickpeas.
- It's 1/2 cup of Chopped Carrots.
- It's 1/2 cup of Chopped Cucumber.
- You need 1/2 cup of Chopped Tomatos (or use cherry tomatoes).
- You need 1 of Avacado (chopped).
- It's 1 of Fresh Lemon (for lemon juice).
- It's 1 tsp of Olive Oil.
Quinoa & Chickpea Summer Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing. Recipe PDF Vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar-free. Chickpeas (garbanzo beans) are my new favorite legume. I love quinoa salads - a great one dish meal for the summer.
Healthy Summer Quinoa Chickpea Salad! step by step
- Cook 1 cup of quinoa in water (follow directions on package) I used about 7 tablespoons of raw quinoa and added a pinch of salt in the water.
- Drain and rinse well the one can of chickpeas and set in the fridge until needed so it cools.
- After quinoa is cooked pour into a bowl and set in fridge also for the mean time.
- Now's a good time to chop up all your veggies (save the avacado for last).
- Once everything is ready combine all ingredients together in a large bowl and squeeze a whole lemons worth of juice on top and add in the oil.
- Gentally toss the salad and it's ready go!.
It'll be a hit at your next party and the leftovers will make a fabulous lunch or dinner for you the next day! More Summery Quinoa Salad Recipes to try: Asian Kale Quinoa Salad; Moroccan Quinoa Salad; Chickpea & Quinoa Mason Jar Salad; Maple Lime Triple Berry Quinoa Salad Asian Quinoa Salad by Two Peas and Their Pod. The recipe combines red cabbage, edamame, carrots, red pepper and cucumbers in a bowl. It perfect for lunch or dinner. The dressing is soy sauce, oil, vinegar, cilantro, sesame seeds, ginger and red pepper flakes.