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Quinoa Salad with Chickpeas, Kalamata Olives & Mint

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If you loaded the amount of quinoa our family eats in one year into a small boat, that vessel would sink to the bottom of the sea faster than you could say “healthy mini grain” five times fast. This salad is another example of our healthy obsession.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Quinoa
  • 2 cups Water
  • 1 can (14 Oz.) Chickpeas, Drained And Rinsed
  • 1-½ cup Quartered Cherry Tomatoes
  • ½ cups Pitted And Sliced Kalamata Olives
  • 2 Tablespoons White Wine Vinegar
  • 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice
  • ¾ teaspoons Honey
  • ½ teaspoons Kosher Salt
  • ¼ teaspoons Freshly Ground Black Pepper
  • ¼ cups Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 4 leaves Fresh Mint, Thinly Sliced

Preparation

In a fine-mesh strainer, rinse quinoa well and drain.

In a medium pot, combine quinoa and water. Bring to a boil, then cover the pot and turn heat to low. Cook until all the water is absorbed, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat, fluff the quinoa and transfer to a cookie sheet, spreading the quinoa in a thin layer, to cool.

In a large bowl, mix together cooled quinoa, chickpeas, tomatoes and kalamata olives. Stir well.

For the dressing, whisk together white wine vinegar, lemon juice, honey, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. While whisking constantly, slow pour in the olive oil until combined.

Pour the dressing over the quinoa salad, toss to coat and stir in fresh mint. Serve.

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Sunny on 7.22.2011

Can’t wait to try this recipe. It looks delicious! Just finished making quinoa pilaf for lunch today. Thanks for sharing:)

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The Church Cook (Kay Heritage) on 7.22.2011

This looks fabulous, Dara! Perfect summer dish!

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Amy ODonnell on 4.8.2012

Delicious and easy to make. For fun I made it for Easter, but it’s just for me, really. Easy to do and assemble, but I think there is a little too much dressing for the salad, and much of it ends up at the bottom of the bowl, so next time I’ll cut down the olive oil a bit, maybe to half a cup. That’s the only downside. . .the good side is that it’s delicious and easy to make. Thanks for posting!

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julieola on 9.9.2011

Made it last night!! Mother in law wouldn’t stop talking about it! It was great!

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