Lemon-scented Quinoa Salad

Don't you love those scents of lemon and those zest on your quinoa salad? I DO. Those aromas are so ravishing to enjoy to dig into the salad.

It's really easy and simple to make. I had adapted from Cooking 101 blog by creating this dish.

It comes with a small bowl of Tahini Dressing with tangy flavor of lemons. Tahini is a sesame paste that you usually make the hummus. It's my first time trying that kind of the dressing and it's an excellent combination with the quinoa salad along with garbanzo beans, chopped red onions, chopped cucumbers, chopped cilantro and sprinkle of lemon zests.

You may want to SAVE those garbanzo bean juice because you might need to pour little bit if your Tahini dressing gets too dry. It will helps to make it smoothly.

Simply cook any flavors of quinoa as your choice as you normally cook for the rice. It's not really hard to do that.

Ingredients:

1 cup quinoa, any choice of yours

2 cups water

Cook it until it becomes curly and transparent.

1 can of garbanzo beans, you can even eat cold or warm it up a little bit

Chopped red onions, cucumbers and cilantro

Put the cooked quinoa on the side while put the garbanzo on the other side in the same bowl then put those chopped red onions, cucumbers and cilantro in the middle. Zest some lemon on it for more flavor.

Tahini Dressing (make it while you are cooking the quinoa)

1 garlic clove, smashed and chopped

1/4 cup Tahini (Sesame Paste)

Zest of 1 whole lemon

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

2 tablespoons olive oil

Sea Salt for taste

If your Tahini dressing gets too DRY- you may want to save the juice from Garbanzo beans to pour little bit to make it smoothly.

Enjoy those vegetarian dish!