Thursday, July 1, 2010

Red Quinoa Salad with red onions, feta and endamames

I was in the mood for something really light for dinner last night.

I looked up in the refrigerator and found what I have was feta cheese, endamames, red onions, romaine lettuces, and grape tomatoes.

So why not to throw it altogether with those red quinoa?! It surely taste so good! You can create your own dressing or use the dressing that you have in your refrigerator.

I decided to use the vegetable stock to cook my red quinoa for more flavor. You simple cook the red quinoa as what you normally cook for white or brown rice in the pan or the rice cooker. Not really hard :D!

I saw that I have a jalapeno so I throw it in that salad to boost up little spicy. You can omit the jalapenos if you don't want any boost up the spicy in your salad.

Ingredients:
Romaine Lettuce, washed and shredded
1 small red onion, finely chopped
Feta crumbled cheese
Handful of grape tomatoes, cut into quartered
1 jalapeno (OPTIONAL)- seeded and finely chopped

For the red quinoa: 1 cup of that along with 2 cups of vegetable broth. Cook it until it becomes swirly and curl. Best to have it bring up a boil then cover the pan with a lid then lower to simmer - cook about 15 minutes or so (you will able to see when it becomes swirly/curly then you know it's all ready).

Put those cooked quinoa and mixed it up along with salad ingredients.

Steam those endamames then sprinkle it as toppings.

For dressing: your own choice or homemade -either way.. For me I usually use freshly squeezed lemon juice along with the apple cider vinegar and olive oil to mix it together along with freshly ground black pepper and little bit of salt to bring up the flavor.

Enjoy this! :D

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