Quinoa Herb Salad with Avocado Recipe – Glam Radar

by Stacey · November 1, 2015


I was very honoured to be posted on Chris Armstrong’s Celiac Handbook website. This website is a great resource for anyone who has celiac disease or follow’s a gluten free diet. I am very delighted that the word is getting out on the health benefits of living gluten free. The website is a fantastic resource full of information on everything from guides to gluten free restaurants to living with celiac disease and I encourage you to check it out.

I thought I would share this light and refreshing quinoa salad recipe with you that I have been making so much of with all the fresh herbs I have in my garden. I love this salad as a side with grilled fish or chicken. It’s a very versatile recipe and I change it up depending on what herbs I have. The best combination I think is mint, basil, cilantro but you can experiment and use parsley as well. This salad is very similar to tabouli but not as intense with all the parsley used in tabouli.

The inspiration for this recipe originally came from a cookbook called Raw Food Real World by Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis and it is one of my favourite raw cookbooks. They use grapes in the recipe but I often leave them out if I don’t have organic grapes handy. If you do not have mirin, I have made it before and left it out and just added a little more oil and lime juice.

Quinoa Herb Salad 
adapted from Raw Food Real World

  • 2 cups cooked quinoa
  • 1 or 2 limes or lemons, juiced
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 3 tbsp macadamia oil
  • 1 bunch of mint, chopped
  • 1 bunch of cilantro, chopped
  • 1 bunch basil, finely chopped
  • 3 celery stalks, diced
  • 3 green onions, sliced
  • 1/2 english cucumber, sliced and quartered
  • sea salt and pepper to taste
  1. Add cooked quinoa to a large bowl. To the quinoa add the juice of the limes and the mirin and oil and let marinade while chopping the herbs, celery and cucumbers and onions.
  2. Add the herbs, celery, cucumbers, green onions, sea salt and pepper to the quinoa.

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