Avocado Blueberry Quinoa Salad Recipe (gluten-free)

This Avocado Blueberry Quinoa Salad is the BEST way to enjoy a fresh, gluten-free salad! With creamy avocado, sweet blueberries and fibre-packed quinoa, this easy-to-make salad will be your new favourite go-to for picnics, potlucks and BBQs. Let's go!

When summer finally gets here, all you wanna do it basically dive in to all the amazing fresh fruits and veggies around.

And this quinoa salad with summer-forward ingredients like blueberries, corn and avocado is a perfect way to take in allllll the goodness of the season.

❣️Why you'll love this recipe

This avocado blueberry quinoa salad is Simply The Best (cue Whitney Houton).

Why? Because it's absolutely packed with nutrition and it's freakin' delicious.

Check out this bangin' nutritional profile:

• Delivers unsaturated fats from the avocado and pistachios
• Antioxidant-rich from blueberries and a cilantro lime dressing
• Plus naturally gluten-free quinoa - a nutritional powerhouse in itself with protein, fibre and serving up 9 essential amino acids!

And did I mention that it's totally yummy!

📝Ingredients

Here's what you'll need to make this quinoa salad:

For the quinoa salad ingredients, you'll use:

• Quinoa
• Avocado
• Blueberries
• Corn
• Red onion
• Pistachios
• Cilantro
• Feta

For the quinoa salad dressing you'll need:

• Cilantro
• Olive oil
• Limes
• Jalapeno
• Salt and pepper

See recipe card for quantities.

🔪How to make avocado blueberry quinoa salad

To make the avocado quinoa salad, you'll blend up the dressing in a blender or food processor.

Then you'll combine the salad ingredients and pour the dressing overtop.

Easy peasy😄

Add all cilantro lime dressing ingredients to a blender.

Blend until smooth. Set aside.

In a large bowl, add cooked quinoa, avocado, blueberries, corn, red onion, feta, pistachios, and cilantro.

Pour cilantro lime dressing all over the quinoa salad and toss to combine.

🔄 Substitutions

Avocado quinoa and blueberries actually do go together like peas and corn BUT here's some ways to change it up if you'd like:

• Remove the feta cheese to make it dairy-free
• Blueberries can be replaced with any blackberries or strawberries
• Pistachios can be swapped with almonds or cashews

🥡Storage and Leftovers

Store any leftover quinoa salad in an air-tight container for up to 2 days.

After the salad is made, the ingredients don't stand up well to freezing so be sure to use it up within 2 days.

You've got extra quinoa. So why not make this quinoa salad?

Quinoa Salad with Feta

Packed with nutrition, delicious and naturally gluten-free!

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🙋‍♀️What to serve with avocado quinoa blueberry salad

The salad is perfect on its own or used as a side salad paired with any protein.

Try one of these for a complete gluten-free meal:

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📖 Recipe

Avocado Blueberry Quinoa Salad Recipe (gluten-free)

This Avocado Blueberry and Quinoa Salad is one of the BEST gluten-free salads around! With creamy avocado, sweet blueberries and fibre-packed quinoa, this salad will be your new favourite go-to this summer.

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Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Keyword: quinoa salad

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

Author: April Saunders

Ingredients

Cilantro Lime Dressing Ingredients:

• ⅓ cup packed cilantro leaves
• ½ cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoon fresh lime juice
• ½ jalapeno seeded
• ½ teaspoon salt
• freshly ground black pepper

For The Salad

• 1 cup cooked quinoa
• 1 firm but still ripe avocado sliced or diced
• 1 cup blueberries
• 1 cup sweet corn canned or fresh
• ½ medium red onion finely diced, about ½ cup
• ½ cup pistachios chopped
• ½ cup cilantro diced
• ½ cup feta optional

Instructions

• Add all cilantro lime dressing ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, add cooked quinoa, avocado, blueberries, corn, red onion, feta, pistachios, and cilantro.
• Pour cilantro lime dressing all over the quinoa salad and toss to combine. Garnish with extra cilantro, pistachios, feta, and red onion if you’d like. Serve at room temp or cold.

Notes

Yield: Makes about 7 cups of salad

Remove feta cheese to make it dairy-free.

Blueberries can be replaced with any berry.

Pistachios can be swapped with almonds or cashews.

The salad is perfect on its own or used as a side salad paired with any protein.

Store salad in an air-tight container for up to 2 days.

Nutrition information is approximate and for 1 cup of salad.

Nutrition Facts

Avocado Blueberry Quinoa Salad Recipe (gluten-free)

Amount per Serving

Calories

383

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

31

g

48

%

Saturated Fat

 

6

g

38

%

Trans Fat

 

0.002

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

4

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

20

g

Cholesterol

 

11

mg

4

%

Sodium

 

347

mg

15

%

Potassium

 

453

mg

13

%

Carbohydrates

 

23

g

8

%

Fiber

 

6

g

25

%

Sugar

 

6

g

7

%

Protein

 

7

g

14

%

Vitamin A

 

370

IU

7

%

Vitamin C

 

12

mg

15

%

Calcium

 

89

mg

9

%

Iron

 

1

mg

6

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Calories

383

Nutrition Facts