Ingredients
- 300g quinoa or couscous
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 1 cucumber
- 150 g cherry tomatoes
- 2 spring onions
- 15 g fresh parsley
- 15 g fresh mint
- 15 g fresh dill
- 150 g fresh spinach
- salt and pepper
Dressing ingredients
- 1 lemon
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small clove of garlic
Author of this recipe
This Greek quinoa or couscous salad is such a tasty dish. It combines the classic ingredients of the Mediterranean like fresh herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers and lemon. This salad is ready in 15 minutes and it's a perfect salad to bring to work the next day. Try these tasty additions: crumbled feta or grilled chicken.
Preparation
- Prepare the quinoa, or couscous, according to instructions, adding a cube of chicken stock for extra flavour. Leave to cool.
- Dice the cucumber and halve the cherry tomatoes.
- Cut the spring onions into fine rings.
- Finely chop the fresh herbs. Zest the lemon.
- Mix the quinoa, or couscous, with the cucumber, tomato, spring onion, fresh herbs, and lemon zest.
- Squeeze half the lemon, mix with the olive oil, and add the crushed garlic (choose a small clove so that the garlic doesn’t dominate).
- Mix the dressing through the salad.
Serve the salad on a bed of fresh spinach and season to taste with salt and pepper.
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