Quinoa and Apple - Raisin - Almond Salad

Hello Friends,


Lately, so many of you have been tempting and inspiring me, cooking with with Quinoa, that I had to cook with it and taste it. So, here is one of my very first quinoa recipe taken from "Family Fun" magazine (edition May 2010). I was reading at my son's math's class waiting room :)


If you want to kn ow more about Quinoa, please click on the word Quinoa. Source: Wikipedia.



Quinoa and Apple - Raisin - Almonds Salad

Ingredients
Quinoa - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups (to cook quinoa)
Diced Tart Apple - 1 cup
Toasted Almonds - 1/2 cup
Golden Raisins - 1/3 cup
Dressing
Honey - 2 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1/4 cup
Olive oil - 3 tbsp
Salt and papper - as per taste
Preparation

• Take a heavy bottomed pan, heat water to cook quinoa and let it come to boil.
• Add quinoa, mix well, cover and let it simmer for 15-20 minutes.
• Let it cool down completely. 
• Meanwhile dice apples and toast almonds.
• Add raisins, apples, almonds to cooked and cooled quinoa.
• Refrigerate it till right before serving.
• Mix all the ingredients of dressing in a bowl.

Serving
Toss salad with dressing right before serving and serve it before any meal or enjoy it simply as an evening snack.


I had prepared it when one of my very good friends came for lunch yesterday. Even they had never tasted or actually even heard of quinoa. It was liked by all :)


One thing I forgot to mention above. You do not see any almonds in my picture because I had only little left and I burnt them while toasting them (I got distracted) :(


Thanks to all the blogging friends who introduced me to this grain.


I am sending this to Soup, Salad & Sammies Sundays event by DEBINHAWAII

 


I am also sending this to Innovative Salad # 2 - Fruits event.


That's all for now, take care till next post.