Quick vegan and gluten-free Winter Quinoa salad, loaded with seasonal flavour- An easy, healthy side dish that you’ll want to make over and over again!
This Winter Quinoa Salad is crunchy, sweet, loaded with flavor and most importantly super nutritious. Just my kind of healthy wintery dish.
Quinoa Salad Ingredients
This healthy salad is ready in just 15 min and requires only 5 ingredients to make:
- quinoa
- brussels sprouts
- pomegranate
- pecan nuts
- spring onion
For extra awesome flavour, I serve this salad with a delicious orange & maple syrup dressing, made simply by mixing extra-virgin olive oil, fresh orange juice, a bit of pure maple syrup and salt&pepper.
I've been completely obsessed with this dressing lately, it's so good I've put it on anything from salads, grilled veggies and even on grilled chicken. SO tasty!
What To Serve With Quinoa Salad?
What To Serve With Quinoa Salad?This Winter Quinoa Salad is great on its own as a simple, vegan and gluten-free meal, but it would also make a lovely side dish with all sorts of roasted/grilled protein.
Chicken, fish, meat or simple poached eggs would all work wonderfully paired with this simple seasonal salad.
What I love most about this recipe is that it’s so easy to make but you can get quite a few meals out of it!
I usually whip up a big batch and keep it in my fridge for a quick meal fix during a busy week.
It would also make a nice healthy side dish to serve over the Christmas and New Year's Eve dinner parties.
This Winter Quinoa Salad so simple and comes together so easily – it’s practically fool-proof!
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Recipe
Quinoa Salad with Brussel Sprouts, Cranberry and Pomegranate
Ingredients
- 370 g cooked quinoa
- 250 g fresh brussels sprouts
- 140 g pomegranate seeds
- 60 g pecan nuts, chopped
- 4 spring onions, finely chopped
For the orange&honey dressing:
- 3 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- juice of 1 orange
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- sea salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
- With the help of a mandoline, finely shred the brussel sprouts. You may also place them in a food processor and pulse until roughly sliced.
- In a large bowl, comine together cooked quinoa, shredded brussels sprouts, pomegranate seeds, pecan nuts and spring onions.
- To make the dressing, whisk together olive oil,orange juice, maple syrup, salt and pepper in a small bowl.
- Pour dressing over the salad and toss together until evenly coated, and serve.
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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