Cucumber Quinoa Salad #vegan #recipevegetarian

This Cucumber Quinoa Salad is anything but difficult to set aside a few minutes, normally without gluten, and loaded with crisp, feel-great flavors that everybody will love!

Man, I don't think about you, however one look at the rainbow of perfect summer produce accessible at the ranchers market feels like — poof! — moment motivation to need to run home and cook something new and sound and yummy. I adore it!!! However one more motivation behind why I trust summer is the most superb time. ;)

With the majority of the crisp greens in season (and appearing in wealth my CSA) recently, I've been making kale and arugula and spring greens plates of mixed greens aplenty, which dependably feel so great. In any case, for something other than what's expected a week ago, I chose to make an invigorating little cucumber serving of mixed greens. I am by all accounts fixated on English cucumbers of late, so I snatched one from the refrigerator and hurled it with some crisp basil, red onion, and feta I had close by. And after that additional in some quinoa for additional protein, and hurled everything with a basic lemony vinaigrette.

Genuinely, it's excessively simple to make. Simply slash up a major English cucumber, some red onion, and parcels crisp basil. Hurl those together with some disintegrated feta (or Parmesan, or any cheddar that sounds great) and chilled (<–you don't need it to be excessively hot and liquefy the cheddar and wither the basil) quinoa.

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INGREDIENTS:

• CUCUMBER QUINOA SALAD INGREDIENTS:
• 1 English cucumber, diced
• 2 cups chilled* cooked quinoa (see this tutorial for how to cook quinoa)
• 1/2 cup diced red onion
• 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
• 1/3 cup julienned or roughly-chopped fresh basil leaves
• 1 batch Lemony Italian vinaigrette (see below)
• LEMONY ITALIAN VINAIGRETTE INGREDIENTS:
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning, homemade or store-bought
• pinch of salt and black pepper

DIRECTIONS:

1. TO MAKE THE CUCUMBER QUINOA SALAD:
2. Toss all ingredients together until combined.  Serve immediately.
3. TO MAKE THE LEMONY ITALIAN VINAIGRETTE:
4. Whisk all ingredients together in a small bowl until combined.

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