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Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta

April 20, 2020 by April 4 Comments

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This Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta is a fantastic healthy dish to add to your meal prep day. You’ll love it for a healthy lunch on-the-go too!

The close up of this Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta in a small white bowl with a fork in the salad

 

Since I’m working from home now more and the kids are home, making lunches at home seems waaaaay more work than packing a few lunches.

Maybe it just feels that way🤷‍♀️

Whatever the deal is, having healthy, yummy and quick lunches is super key these days to keep on the healthy eating track as much as humanely possible.

Enter: this Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta!

This one my favourite dishes to have in the fridge for lunches while I’m hosting Zoom meetings and (trying) to get kids to finish assignments from their teachers.

The recipe for Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta is from my mom. She made a quinoa salad for years, which, you might be surprised to hear, I didn’t love.

Ok. I actually thought it was super gross🤷‍♀️

But, you know how it is, I’ve definitely come to appreciate this salad, especially for these reasons:

  • it’s suuuuper easy to make
  • it keeps for days in the fridge
  • it’s packed with healthy cards, protein and veggies
  • And it travels well. Ok this point less important these days as we aren’t going very far but still, good to know when things start going back to normal

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So believe you me: this is one salad you will not regret making on a weekend.

It’s perfect for #covidcooking time too because the ingredients will likely be in your pantry – go-to staples like quinoa, black beans and veggies (cucumber, tomatoes and pepper is my favourite.)

(Ever tried Quinoa Cupcakes? You gotta check these out.)

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This Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta was made this past weekend and it lasted for days in the fridge, giving my hubby and I lots of leftovers of healthy foods.

The quinoa+black bean combo is soooo filling so that’s always a bonus if you’re like me lately: working from home and the food hardly takes a break in calling my name (who knew a frozen tin of Quality Street would be so tempting?!)

The salad lasts about 3 days in the fridge and heads-up: this recipe make a lot. So get those food containers out and start packing it up for a healthy salad in a pinch.

Alright I hope you try the salad and love it!

If you do make it and love it, please rate and comment and let me know 🙋‍♀️I’d love to hear from you😄

Onwards my friends!

~April

PS. Looking for more easy, yummy and healthy recipes for supper?

Check these out:

Healthy Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup (no beans)

Easy Winter Soup with Beans

Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice

Healthy Taco Salad with Ground Beef and Kidney Beans

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Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta

AvatarApril
This delicious and healthy Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta is a perfect quick lunch!
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 20 mins
Cooling the quinoa 20 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course Salad, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 10 cups

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups cooked quinoa 1 cup before cooking
  • 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

  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 juice of lemon
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 1 tsp red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp fresh ground 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 1/2 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

After a couple days, I like to brighten the salad up with a fresh squeeze of lemon juice and fresh ground pepper before I dig in.
For cooking the quinoa: got some vegetable broth to use up in the fridge? Swap out water for some broth for a little more flavour.
Keyword quinoa; salad; vegetarian

Filed Under: Gluten Free, Lunch, Make It Tonight, Most Popular, Salads, Side Dishes, Snacks, Vegetarian Tagged With: easy quinoa salad, healthy snack, lunch on-the-go, quinoa salad

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Comments

  1. AvatarJuanita says

    April 21, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
    • AvatarApril says

      April 21, 2020 at 9:46 pm

      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 🙂

      Reply
  2. AvatarAnne says

    May 1, 2020 at 8:50 am

    5 stars
    Delicious Salad! Thank you for sharing! I didn’t have cucumbers so added romaine lettuce and it still had awesome flavour.

    Reply
  3. AvatarApril says

    May 1, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    Awesome! Thanks for letting me know Anne – so glad you liked it!

    Reply

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