{"id":22563,"date":"2016-04-18T22:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thasneen.com\/cooking\/?p=22563"},"modified":"2022-03-06T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T03:22:20","slug":"healthy-quinoa-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/healthy-quinoa-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Quinoa Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/healthy-quinoa-salad.jpg\" alt=\"healthy quinoa salad\" width=\"475\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/healthy-quinoa-salad.jpg 475w, https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/healthy-quinoa-salad-133x200.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Healthy quinoa and mixed veggie salad, perfect Summer salad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t be any happier, the weather got better and we are actually enjoying warm weather for the past few days. The first thing I did was to hang the bird feeder in my backyard, within a few minutes lots of cute birds gathered around to enjoy their food. Their chirping makes my backyard lively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet my lovely birds: aren&#8217;t they adorable???<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Birds-in-the-backyard.jpg\" alt=\"Birds in the backyard\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Birds-in-the-backyard.jpg 475w, https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Birds-in-the-backyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Birds-in-the-backyard-84x55.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, I tried this quinoa salad: cooked black and white quinoa are combined with mixed veggies and seasoned with lemon juice, ground pepper and salt. I kept it simple and it turned out be one healthy salad to go with baked chicken or\u00a0salmon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quinoa-salad.jpg\" alt=\"quinoa salad\" width=\"475\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quinoa-salad.jpg 475w, https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/quinoa-salad-192x200.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"easyrecipe mceNonEditable\" data-rating=\"0\"> \t<link itemprop=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/healthy-quinoa-salad.jpg\" \/>\n<div class=\"item ERName\">Healthy Quinoa Salad<\/div>\n<div class=\"ERClear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\"><span class=\"xlate\">Recipe Type<\/span>: <span class=\"type\">salad<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Author: <span class=\"author\">Thasneen<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Prep time: <time itemprop=\"prepTime\" datetime=\"PT5M\">5 mins<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Cook time: <time itemprop=\"cookTime\" datetime=\"PT20M\">20 mins<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Total time: <time itemprop=\"totalTime\" datetime=\"PT25M\">25 mins<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERHead\">Serves: <span class=\"yield\">5 People<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ERIngredients\">\n<div class=\"ERIngredientsHeader\">Ingredients<\/div>\n<ul class=\"ingredients\">\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Quinoa, red or white variety- 1 cup<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Water- 2 cups to cook quinoa (or use veggie stock or chicken stock for more flavor)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Tomato, chopped- 1<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Cucumber, chopped- 1<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Red or Yellow pepper, chopped- 1<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Carrot, shredded- 1<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Lemon juice- juice of 1\/2 lemon<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Ground pepper- 1\/2 tsp<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Salt- to taste<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">Cilantro, chopped- 1\/4 cup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ERInstructions\">\n<div class=\"ERInstructionsHeader\">Instructions<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions\">\n<ol>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Rinse quinoa taken in a sieve under running water, this will help to remove the natural bitterness of quinoa&#8217;s outer coating.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Place a large pan over medium heat, add water, season with salt, let the water come to a rolling boil.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Lower the heat, add quinoa and cook covered for about 20 minutes till quinoa has turned soft and the water has dried off. Remove the pan from the heat and let cool down.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Cooking quinoa in vegetable or chicken stock will make it more flavorful.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">In a large bowl, combine all the veggies.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Add cooked and cooled quinoa to the veggies, combine well.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Squeeze lemon juice over them, season with ground pepper and salt. Give everything a good mix.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve.<\/li>\n<li class=\"instruction\">This can be served along with baked\/grilled or air fried chicken or salmon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ERNutrition\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"endeasyrecipe\" style=\"display: none;\">3.5.3251<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy quinoa and mixed veggie salad, perfect Summer salad&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t be any happier, the weather got better and we are actually enjoying warm weather for the past few days. The first thing I did was to hang the bird feeder in my backyard, within a few minutes lots of cute birds gathered around to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[710,560,28,18],"tags":[1056,590,998],"class_list":["post-22563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-recipes","category-quinoa","category-salad","category-vegetarian","tag-healthy-recipes","tag-quinoa-2","tag-salad","course-salad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thasneen.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}