Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa, cooked
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup shredded carrot
2 tablespoon sunflower seed kernals (salted or unsalted)
2 green onions, chopped
Dressing
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Directions
Mix the quinoa, cranberries, carrots, green onion and sunflower seeds in a bowl
Add the honey to the cider vinegar in a microwave proof cup and heat for 30 seconds, stir to dissolve the honey. Add olive oil and stir well or use blender to mix.
Blend dressing in to salad, add salt and pepper to taste. chill at least 1 hour before serving.
Number of Servings: about 4, 1/2 cup servings
I first posted this on my personal site, but figured I would share it here too. I use a mix of red and white quinoa, but using all of one or the other is fine. I just like the visual of using the mixed. I would recommend letting sit overnight if you can, the cranberries will really plump up. If you don’t have cranberries, or just want a different flavor, try raisins or dried cherries and maybe almonds or walnuts instead of the sunflower seeds. Oh, and I think next time I might add some red bell pepper too. If you want to up the protein, increase the amount of quinoa, but leave the other stuff at the same amounts.
I am so ready for quinoa, it’s not even funny! I just have to FIND it…Trader Joe’s?
I haven’t looked for it at Trader Joe’s, but I may hit there this weekend,will look if I make it. I get mine in the bulk area of a local food co-op. My big-box grocery has it in their whole foods section, and I suppose Whole Foods would have it as well.
They do have quinoa at Trader Joe’s – it’s in the same section as the rice and cous cous
Thanks for this. I love Quinoa but run out of ways to use it. This sounds awesome. ~M
That looks absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to try it. Whole Foods has a great quinoa sandwich. Quinoa is so full of nutrition. Your combination with cranberries sounds scrumptious!
Ok, so you know how I talk about how my recipes are not hard and fast most the time, but sort of guidelines?
Well, I did a variation of this for lunch today.
I was running low on cranberries so did half-cranberries, half raisins.
Used sweet yellow onion instead of green onion, and pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower seeds.
I forgot the carrot… but added tuna.
All I can say is .. yum.
The cider flavor is very subtle… I think personally I’d like it it to pop a bit more so next time I’ll up the amount of dressing just a bit.
I bought a large bag of quinoa at Costco.
Yea, I’ve seen that recently and it’s likely what I’ll buy next as the price of red quinoa at my local co-op has shot up to nearly $7 a pound! Even their white is nearly double what it is at Costco.