July 5, 2007: Dried Reddish Quinoa Salad

infatuated amongst dried cherries after discovering them at the Queen Vic markets. Then a let out of weeks after they popped upwardly on the shelf at Safeway for the starting fourth dimension time. Unsurprisingly, the supermarket-sourced cherries weren't quite equally tasty as well as they've languished inward the pantry for the intervening calendar month or so. While I didn't desire to waste materials nighttime chocolate on them, my inferior fruits were worthy of this quinoa salad from Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. I proved less good suited to the task, completely overestimating our quinoa reserves as well as having to substitute virtually of it amongst couscous.

While I'd prefer to rely exclusively on the super-nutritious quinoa, our salad didn't endure at all from pasta problems - at that spot are only likewise many other corking ingredients going on here. Chickpeas as well as spinach are staples inward this home, as well as add together welcome mass as well as texture; the lemon-yoghurt dressing is my ideal partner for quinoa. However the star span at this political party are the dried cherries as well as roasted almonds: fifty-fifty the briefest sit down inward this moist mixture has the cherries softening from their leathery state, piece the creamy almonds maintained their crunch fifty-fifty after floating inward this dressed salad for a day.

Be warned that the crushed raw garlic thoroughly infuses this dish, making it a risky take-to-work lunch. It's a fleck of extra endeavor but using roasted garlic powerfulness practise a milder, sweeter as well as to a greater extent than sociable salad.

Dried cherry quinoa salad

1/4 loving cup roasted almonds, chopped
1 1/2 cups quinoa, rinsed (use cous cous if you're desperate)
2 cups spinach leaves, chopped
1 loving cup dried cherries, chopped
1 cucumber; peeled, deseeded as well as diced finely
1 x 400g tin scope the sack chickpeas, rinsed

dressing:
1/4 loving cup natural yoghurt (soy or dairy)
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced

Prepare the quinoa and/or couscous (separately!) using the directions on the package as well as allow it to cool.

Whisk the dressing ingredients inward a pocket-size bowl, as well as toss the other salad ingredients together inward a large bowl. Pour over the dressing as well as toss farther to combine.

Let the salad sit down for one-half an threescore minutes to allow the flavours develop.