This Quinoa Salad with Feta will make you wonder how you lived WITHOUT quinoa salad before today. It's a perfect meal prep salad. Serve it for dinner with The BEST Cast Iron Skillet Burgers!
This quinoa salad is perfect any time of year, for any meal.
It delivers major nutrition and it's simple to make.
Plus, it's suuuuper delicious.
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📝 Ingredients for Quinoa Salad with Feta
- Quinoa - about 3 cups cooked
- Red pepper
- Celery
- Cucumber
- Cherry tomatoes
- Green onions
- Black beans
- Feta cheese - crumbed
- Olive oil
- 1 lemon
- Liquid honey
- Apple cider vinegar
- Salt and fresh ground pepper
See recipe card below for quantities and instructions.
🔪How to make quinoa salad
Cook the quinoa according to package instructions.
While it cooks, whisk up the dressing. Once done, fluff quinoa and let cool.
Add the cooled quinoa to a large bowl with all the other ingredients.
Pour dressing over the bowl of salad ingredients and toss gently. Serve😋
Top Tip
If you have vegetables in the fridge that need to be used up you can probably throw them into this quinoa salad.
🥡Make it a Meal Prep
Place the quinoa salad in meal prep containers with a couple boiled eggs and cut apple slices. Lunch done💥
🙋♀️Is quinoa salad good for you?
Quinoa itself is a highly nutritious choice and quinoa provides a ton of nutrition. It's a great source of:
- Protein
- Fibre
- B vitamins - B6, B2, B1
- Folate
- Minerals - manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, copper and zinc
It's also economical, easy to cook, and you can make sooo many delicious dishes with it.
Fun fact: quinoa itself is a seed. Not a grain as you might assume.
The quinoa plant belongs to the amaranth family - a naturally gluten-free option!
To keep quinoa salads healthy, go for a ton of veggies and oil-based instead of cream-based dressings. And if you love fruit and quinoa, check out this recipe for Summer Quinoa Salad with Mango🥭
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If you do make this quinoa salad and love it, please rate and comment below.
I love to hear from you🙋♀️
~April
📖 Recipe
Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta
Ingredients
- 3 cups quinoa, after cooking 1 ¼ cup before cooking (dry)
- 1 red pepper diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 2 medium cucumbers diced
- 1 240ml can of black beans rinsed and drained
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes diced
- 1 cup crumbled feta
Dressing
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ juice of lemon
- 2 teaspoon honey
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 2 green onions (scallions), thinly sliced separate the green bottoms from the white tops
Instructions
- Cook the quinoa according to package instructions.
- While the quinoa cooks, put the chopped vegetables and drained black beans in a large bowl.
- Make the dressing by whisking together the olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, honey, salt, pepper and the about ½ of the white tops of the scallions.
- Once the quinoa is cooked and slightly cooled, add to the large bowl of vegetables and black beans. stir to combine.
- Pour dressing over the combined ingredients and toss gently to combine. Add feta and combine.
- This is ready to eat right away. If you're packing it up, place in containers. Keeps in fridge for 3 days.
Notes
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- Use 2 cups of water for every 1 ¼ cup dry quinoa (=3 cups quinoa cooked)
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- Bring water to a boil. Add quinoa, stir, then reduce heat to low
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- Cook with the lid on for about 15 minutes
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- Remove from heat and fluff with a fork
Juanita says
This salad was a huge hit at my house tonight. I added a head of chopped romaine that was about to go bad. It was really delicious and satisfying. I might chop a Granny Smith apple in it next time just to mix it up a bit. It doesn’t need an apple though - perfect just as it is. Delicious salad!
April says
Thanks Juanita!! So glad the fam like it. I also love the idea of a granny smith apple - tangy and crunchy! I'll try that next time too 🙂
Anne says
Delicious Salad! Thank you for sharing! I didn’t have cucumbers so added romaine lettuce and it still had awesome flavour.
April says
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know Anne - so glad you liked it!