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.
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❣️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!
Top tip
Any type of quinoa will do BUT if you wanna go fancy, why not pick up tri-colored or red quinoa? Same nutrition, same gluten-free goodness.
It just adds another pop of colour to the quinoa salad🤩
🙋♀️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.
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📖 Recipe
Avocado Blueberry Quinoa Salad Recipe (gluten-free)
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.
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