Quinoa Tabbouleh
From darbar 15 years ago- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 8
A delicious way to incorporate raw food into your diet. The high-protein quinoa takes the place of meat and the raw veggies are delicious!
Ingredients
- One cup quinoa (before cooking) shopping list
- Two large roma tomatoes, diced shopping list
- One cucumber, seeded and diced shopping list
- A small red onion/several green onions (or both), diced/sliced thin shopping list
- A cup or so of red cabbage, diced shopping list
- Lots of garlic (6-8 cloves or more), minced shopping list
- A big handful of fresh mint, chopped shopping list
- 3-4 carrots, peeled and diced shopping list
- Half a bunch of parsley, chopped shopping list
- extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- The juice of two lemons shopping list
- Sea or kosher salt shopping list
- Freshly ground pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Cook one cup of quinoa in two cups of water. We mix white & red together, but you can do either/or. Remember that the red takes a bit longer...like, 25-30 minutes instead of 20.. If it's white/red mixed, it only takes about twenty. Let the quinoa cool.
- Finely chop all of the veggies. Mix all of that together with the cooled quinoa. Drizzle the entire mixture very liberally with olive oil, mix well, then add the juice of about 2 lemons, salt & pepper. Toss & enjoy!
- Variations:
- Instead of fresh mint, add a couple teaspoons of dried mint to the lemon juice & let it soak before blending it with the veggie mix.
- Experiment with other veggies...bell pepper, radishes, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots...whatever...
- I also like to add a half cup or so of hemp seeds to increase the protein content & omegas. You can also add in some hemp oil or ground flax seed/flax oil to make this salad even more nourishing. It's some of the best tasting medicine you'll ever ingest!
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
This looks delicious! As with every recipe I try, I'll probably be adding in mushrooms, but looks awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
aluminum_chef in Montreal loved it
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i love quinoa , esp the Inca red variety, great post!
midgelet in Whereabouts loved it
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Lov e it!
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