Quinoa summer salad with avocado and strawberries

This recipe for quinoa summer salad is fun to eat, easy to prepare and will leave you full of energy to enjoy your vacay day.

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Here is an article with some ideas on how to help step by step to make this happen. Let’s make this work so we can continue to eat delicious salads, delicious quinoa summer salads like this one.

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So here is the recipe for this

quinoa summer salad with avocado and strawberries

and I promise you you’ll love it. It is easy to prepare, healthy, delicious and super fun to eat. Best of all it will leave you feeling light and full of energy. If you make it and like it, please share the recipe and the blog.

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Summer quinoa salad with avocado and strawberries

This recipe for quinoa summer salad is vegan, healthy, easy, delicious filled with plant base protein and basically everything you will want to eat during the whole summer.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Course Salad

Cuisine Healthy plant based food

Servings 6 people

Calories 239 kcal

Ingredients

  

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Quinoa

• 1 cup quinoa
• 3/4 cup water

Dressing

• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Salad

• 4 handfuls of chopped spinach
• 1 cup diced strawberries
• 1 avocado cubes
• 1/4 cup pine nuts
• 6 leaves of basil

Instructions

 

INSTRUCTIONS

• Put the quinoa and water in a pot with a lid over low heat. When there is very little water on the edges of the pot, turn it off and leave it covered. Leave it aside.
• While there is the quinoa. In a bowl or bottle put the ingredients of the dressing, vinegar, salt and olive oil. Mix and taste, make it rich. Leave it aside.
• When the quinoa is done, fluff with a fork until it is completely loose and cold.
• Put it in a large bowl and mix with the spinach. Add dressing and mix.
• Put the strawberries, the avocado and the pine nuts and mix very carefully not to beat.
• Finish with basil leaves.

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Notes

RECIPE NOTES If the balsamic vinegar you use is very sweet add a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar to the dressing.

Nutrition

Calories: 239kcalCarbohydrates: 22gProtein: 5gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 102mgPotassium: 236mgFiber: 3gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 90IUVitamin C: 14.3mgCalcium: 17mgIron: 1.8mg

Keyword quinoa salad, salad with strawberries, summer salad

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