Take pantry ingredients, add a few fresh elements and create this vegetarian Mediterranean Quinoa Salad! Add grilled chicken for a delicious and easy meal.
Why Quinoa
Quinoa is gluten-free, high in protein and one of the few plant foods that contain sufficient amounts of all nine essential amino acids. It’s high in fiber, magnesium, B vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E and offers various beneficial antioxidants.
A week of Quinoa Salads
For one week we made quinoa salad lunches every day using a variety of ingredients. Our goal by the end of the week is to show case how easy quinoa is to work with and using ingredients on hand or a little we had to shop for, you can come up with easy, nutritious meals in no time at all!
PRO TIPS:
- Make your quinoa in advance, even the day before. It keeps perfectly in the refrigerator and all you need to do is mix in the other ingredients.
- Your favourite Greek dressing or olive oil dressing will taste delicious in this salad.
- Roasted eggplant would be a great add-in.
- Make this salad in advance. I’d say a couple hours in advance is perfect if you have the time.
- Some days I add feta, some days I don’t. Change up this salad to suit your tastes!
If you like this salad you’ll love these ones:
- Pomegranate and Orange Quinoa Salad
- Thai Quinoa Salad
- Couscous with Carrots, Cilantro and Green Onions
- Green Apple and Cranberry Quinoa Salad
- Turkey Quinoa Salad
If you made this recipe tag Wanda Baker on Instagram and hashtag it #bakersbeans.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 1/2 cup sundried tomatoes in oil drained
- 1/4 cup kalamata olives halved & pitted
- 1/2 cup chick peas
- 1/2 cup artichoke hearts chopped
- 1/2 cup tomatoes chopped
- 1/4 red onion chopped
- 1/2 cup fresh chopped parsley
- 1/4 cup feta cheese crumbled
- olive oil
- red wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 tsp dijon mustard
- salt & pepper
- dried oregano
Instructions
- Take one cup of your cooked quinoa and place in a bowl. Add sundried tomatoes, cucumber, kalamata olives, chick peas, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, red onion, parsley and feta cheese.
- Pouring in dressing and toss lightly. Taste for seasoning and if required add more dressing/salt/pepper to your liking.
Notes
Now that I realize that my kid LOVES quinoa, I am all over throwing into salads – this looks great!
I’m lucky my daughter even asks for leftover quinoa salad for lunches (not all of them but some that I make)! Thank you!
This sounds so delicious! I love a good quinoa salad, and the Mediterranean vibe of this recipe is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thank you, I love quinoa myself and I’m lucky the family does to!
Love the combination of flavours in here, I make a similar dish using pasta in the summer for a Mediterranean inspired pasta salad but love the idea of using quinoa instead! 🙂
I love your idea of using similar flavours with pasta. I will have to look up your recipe!
A classic quinoa salad style that I love! Fantastic recipe Wanda and now I need to make this over the weekend
Thanks Ginni..definitely delicious flavours!