This salad is grate for protein push, if you feel like having a healthy meal after workout, as a full meal for one or as a side salad. Tastes best when it's cold!
My Story
I was looking for a fresh healthy full of protein lunch. I always loved salads but never thought of it as an option of a full meal. As I was going vegan and trying to improve my cocking skills I realized what a great meal it can be to combine legumes in a rich vegetable salad to create a filling meal.
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa
- 2 cup boiling water
- 1 cup green beans
- 4 big champignon mushrooms
- 2 cucumber
- 2 to mato
- 1 purple onion can be replaced with white
- Hand full cranberries
- 1/2 cup coriander can pass or replaced with parsley
- 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp black paper
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Cock the quinoa on a pot with a little bit of olive oil and the boiling water
- After 20 minutes when all of the water has been soaked in the quinoa, remove the quinoa into a bowl and let it cool
- Meanwhile, prepare the rest of the ingredients
- Fry the green beans until it's soft
- Dice the mushrooms and fry them for 5 minutes to make it warm
- Dice the cucumber, tomato and onion
- Chop the coriander
- Put all together in the quinoa ball and mix
- Add the cranberries and mix again
Dressing:
- Squeeze the lemon
- Add the oil, salt and paper
- Pour all on the salad and mix again