A fantastic salad, healthy and delicious and wonderful for helping relieve the symptoms of constipation. This salad is great as a main dish, or lunch.
Equipment
Ingredients
1 cup quinoa cooked
¼ can chickpeas rinsed and drained
½ cucumber
½ cup cherry tomatoes
¼ avocado mashed
½ red pepper finely chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp hummus
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water
1 tsp parsley chopped
1 pinch sea salt
1 pinch black pepper
Instructions
- Cook the 1 cup of Quinoa.
- Rinse the chickpeas. Chop 1/4 of the cucumber into fine dice. The slice the remaining 1/4 cucumber. Finely dice 1/2 of the Cherry Tomatoes. Dice the Red Pepper. Mash the Avocado.
- Add the quinoa, chickpeas, diced cucumber, diced tomatoes, diced red pepper and mashed avocado into a mixing bowl.
- Add the hummus, lemon juice, olive oil, chopped parsley and water into a small bowl and mix. Season the mix with salt and pepper. Add this mix and the prepared salad to the quinoa and mix well.
- Place the mixed salad into a desert or soup bowl and press gently. It needs to be lightly compacted but shouldn't crush the ingredients. Place a serving plate, upside down on the top of the bowl and turn over carefully.
- Slowly remove the desert bowl leaving a domed salad on your serving plate (optional). Dress the plate with the remaining sliced cucumber and cherry tomatoes.
Notes
Add more lemon juice or water if the mix is too dry to form a domed salad.
Add additional lemon slices to the salad plate, guests can squeeze the juice over over their plated salad to give extra taste and zing.
YOUR RECIPE NOTES:
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 927kcalCarbohydrates: 128gProtein: 29gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gMonounsaturated Fat: 19gSodium: 172mgPotassium: 1775mgFiber: 20gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 2451IUVitamin C: 109mgCalcium: 132mgIron: 10mg
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