Diet Quinoa Salad

We offer you a recipe for a delicious dietary salad made from quinoa, cucumbers, carrots and bell peppers.

Ingredients

• Quinoa - 200 g
• Cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
• Bulgarian pepper (preferably multi-colored) - 2-3 pcs.
• Hot pepper - 1 pc.
• Green onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Parsley greens - 1 bunch
• Mint - 10 leaves
• Nuts - 50 g
• Vegetable oil - 40 ml
• Salt - 1.5 tsp
• Lemon (juice) - 1 pc.

Directions

1. Pour 200 grams of quinoa into a saucepan or a heavy-bottomed pan, light the fire, and heat the quinoa well. Add 0.5 teaspoon of salt and 400 milliliters of boiling water, stir, cover, make very small heat, cook until tender, about 20 minutes without opening the lid. After 20 minutes, turn off and let cool.
2. Cut into small cubes and put 3 cucumbers in a bowl.
3. Chop 1-2 carrots.
4. Chop 2-3 colored bell peppers. First, red.
5. And then yellow.
6. Chop one hot pepper.
7. (If you want the salad to be more spicy, then the pepper should be chopped along with the seeds).
8. Cut and add 3-4 green onions to the salad.
9. Finely chop 10 mint leaves.
10. Finely chop a bunch of parsley.
11. Chop 50 grams of toasted nuts.
12. Add quinoa to vegetables and mix.
13. Prepare a salad dressing with quinoa, cucumber, carrot and pepper. Squeeze the juice of one lemon into a bowl, add 1 teaspoon of salt, mix, add 40 milliliters of olive or any other vegetable oil, mix.
14. Pour the dressing over the quinoa salad.
15. Stir the dietary salad and serve. We serve quinoa salad as a cold appetizer or as a side dish for meat or fish.