Crunchy Quinoa Salad
Ingredients:
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1.5 cups water (I used leftover broccoli broth)
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots
- handful of shredded kale
- 1/2 cup chopped almonds
- 2 chopped scallions or 1 small sweet onion (I used a chopped sweet onion)
- 1/4 cup mekabu
(tiny wakame – use whatever seaweed you have available – Klara’s recipe used arame; you probably need to soak it first)
Dressing, optional:
- A few tsps. tamari
- A few tsps. mirin (rice wine – Eden makes one with an O-K – a specialty product that is DE-licious)
- 1/4 tahini (I didn’t use – I don’t like tahini, but maybe you do)
Soak the nuts earlier in the day. Rinse the quinoa, cook it in water or broth, add a bit of salt. Shred the carrots and put them on top of the almost cooked quinoa. Ground up the nuts. Put shredded kale and all other ingredients on top and cook a bit more until the kale is soft.
May be served served warm or at room temperature. Enjoy your quinoa salad!
mother in israel says
I went to buy some quinoa the other week but the price had doubled!
Leora says
I suppose you could try it with a different grain.
Ilana-Davita says
What about bulgur?
Leora says
Yes, it would probably even easier to make with bulghur, because you don't need to rinse or even cook bulghur, just add hot water and let it sit for a bit.
But then you don't get the benefits of eating quinoa. It's usually good to vary the grains one eats and not always eat wheat.
lawstude says
looks really appetizing. :)
Ilana-Davita says
This looks good, maybe when I am tired with soup or the weather is too hot I'll try it for lunch.
mother in israel says
Good ideas. Wish quinoa was a normal price, though.
Raizy says
I have to tell you this story:
Two weeks ago, Flash and I were playing anagrams (it's a word game). I spelled quinoa and he insisted that it wasn't a real word. (I had never seen quinoa either, but they talk about it a lot on Top Chef.) For two weeks, Flash periodically teased me about "making stuff up". Then, just a few days ago, he came home from school with that sheepish look on his face. I said "What are you hiding from me?" Finally he admitted that a friend had brought a quinoa salad in to school that day, and Flash had tasted it. "Not only is quinoa an actual real thing" he said, "but it also tastes good".
Leora says
"...it also tastes good" - can Flash speak to my children? Sounds like he could be a good influence.
Klara Le Vine says
What a great story!!!!!!
Jew Wishes says
What a great photo...the quinoa looks yummy.
I will have to try to recipe, some time.
Shabbat Shalom.
Klara Le Vine says
so you going to make me write up my version or you'll do it for me? :>)
g'mar hatima tovah to you and all your family for a wonderful year full of new and surprizing good things!!!
Leora says
I will be happy to write up your version for a separate post. If you add some commentary... after the hagim.
Klara Le Vine says
You're not asking me to "promise" anything after this morning in shul when we did atarat nedarim?? Well, my learned daughter just told me nedarim are connected with mitzvoth, so now to figure out if writing a commentary on your blog can be construed as a mitzvah!!!! Well, anything to help with our health I think is a mitzvah, so "bli neder" see you after Yom Kippur, with a clean slate
ramblingwoods says
I am not familiar with that grain...so I looked it up... The salad looks really good... Michelle
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