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Quinoa, Mango & Mint Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Quinoa, Mango & Mint Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
Served cold, this refreshing Mango Quinoa Salad is the perfect sweet/spicy balance, with jalapeños, cilantro, onion, and tomatoes. Make this vegan recipe ahead of time and serve straight out of the fridge! It's amazing paired with a spicy protein, like blackened tilapia or jerk chicken.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa, mango & mint salad using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa, Mango & Mint Salad:
- Make ready 2 cups water
- Take 1 cup quinoa
- Make ready 1/4 red onion
- Prepare 2 mangos
- Take 1 cucumber
- Take 1 Roma tomato
- Get 1 cup feta or panela cheese
- Take 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh mint leaves
- Take 2 lemons, the juice of
- Prepare to taste salt
- Make ready to taste pepper
Mango Quinoa Salad is a tart, sweet, and tangy dish, filled with color and texture. The mangoes add a sweet note to this salad and it's filling enough to be a main dish as well. I've eaten this salad for lunch many times. I tasted Mango Quinoa Salad for the first time a few years ago, while visiting a friend in Colorado.
Steps to make Quinoa, Mango & Mint Salad:
- In a pot, bring the water to a rolling boil. Add the quinoa, cover and let simmer at low flame for 15 minutes. Drain and transfer to a bowl to let cool until room temperature (you can speed up the cooling by placing a smaller bowl with ice cubes or chilled water on top of the quinoa).
- While the quinoa cools, dice onion, mangos, cucumber, tomato and cheese.
- Combine quinoa with diced ingredients, add the mint leaves. Toss with the lemon juice and season with salt and pepper. Voilá!
The vibrant colors of this salad–orange, red, black and green–signal that it's loaded with phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals. And since it features both quinoa–a "complete" protein with all the essential amino acids–and black beans, it's a vegetarian protein powerhouse. Serve on a bed of Boston lettuce or in a pita pocket. Quinoa, black beans, mango and vegetables with cilantro and lime juice - a delicious combination perfect for lunch or as a side dish. (perfect for Meatless Mondays!) Leftovers are great, the flavors only get better the next day. The HSH deli items at Whole Foods have no added salt, oil or sugar.
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