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    Home » Siru Thaniyangal | Millets » Quinoa » Quinoa and Black bean salad

    Quinoa and Black bean salad

    Posted on June 20, 2014 · Last Updated on September 5, 2024 · By Srividhya G · 2 Comments

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     I got introduced to salads after coming to US. Can you have salad as a meal?? If you would have asked me this question 7 years ago, I would have replied, what? No way… But now, I love them. Salads doesn’t mean just lettuce and greens. Thanks to my friend Tami for introducing me to a variety of salads. Her salads are so yum :-) 

    She made this salad for one of our team potluck. Just loved it and it became a staple in our household. I make it in bulk, and have it for lunch for the whole week. Protein filled salad. Basically we got this recipe from epicurious.com. I just followed the recipe pretty much same from epicurious, just adjusting the proportion. And the only one variation is, I didn’t go for jalapeño chillies. I just used the regular Indian chilly and also added shallots.  

    QuninoaBlackBeanSalad

    Here is what I did,

    Ingredients:

    • Quinoa – 1 cup
    • Black Beans – 1 can (you can soak kidney beans overnight and pressure cook them too)
    • Green Bell Pepper – 1
    • Green Chillies – 2 
    • Water to cook quinoa
    • Corn – ¼ cup (I used frozen corn)
    • Finely Chopped Cilantro – ¼ cup
    • Finely chopped Shallots – 2

    Dressing:

    • Red Wine Vinegar – 1 tbsp
    • Olive oil  – 3 tbsps
    • Cumin Powder – 1 tsp
    • Ground Black Pepper – 2 tsps (as required)
    • Lemon Juice – 2 tbsps
    • Salt – 1.5 tsps

    Steps:

    • Finely chop the bell peppers, shallots and cilantro.
    • If you are using canned beans, rinse them well.
    • Deseed and finely chop the green chillies.

    OtherIngredients

    • Cook the quinoa.
      • Wash the quinoa nicely.
      • Boil the water. Add a tsp of oil and ¼ tsp of salt.
      • Once the water to starts to boil add the quinoa and when it is half done cover and cook for 5 more minutes.
      • Once the quinoa is cooked, drain the water and fluff it well.
      • You can also pressure cook the quinoa.

    CookedQuinoa

    • Mix every thing given under dressing.

    Dressing

    • Add the chopped veggies, black beans, green chilly and corn to quinoa.
    • Add the dressing and mix well.

    SaladMix

    That’s it. The salad is ready. Serve chilled. :-)

    QuinoaBlackBeanSaladWithVinegarSummerSalad

     

     
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    1. Srividhya Manikandan says

      June 25, 2014 at 1:32 pm

      Me too. :-(

      Reply
    2. Tami says

      June 20, 2014 at 5:56 am

      That sounds terrific Sri…I have to try it!!! I miss sharing salads with you.

      Reply

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