Colorful lentil quinoa salad

AUTHOR
Harley Romero
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.7 3
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 200 g green lentils
  • 100 g Quinoa
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Balsamic Bianco vinegar
  • 1 TEASPOON Sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 1 Onion
  • 2 Carrots (about 100 g each)
  • 2 Tomatoes (about 100 g each)
  • 4 Stem(s) Coriander
  • 1 (approx. 300 g) Avocado
  • 7-10 Tbsp juice of 1/2 lemon

Directions

  1. 1

    Cook the lentils in boiling water for about 25 minutes. Wash the quinoa and cook in boiling salted water for about 15 minutes. Drain the lentils and quinoa. In a bowl mix with 1 tbsp. oil. Leave to cool.

  2. 2

    In the meantime, mix vinegar and sugar. Fold in the remaining oil in a thin stream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel and grate carrots. Wash tomatoes, grate dry, cut in half, remove stalks.

  3. 3

    Cut the tomatoes into fine cubes. Wash the coriander, shake dry and chop finely, except for a few leaves for garnishing. Cut avocado in half lengthwise along the core, unscrew halves and remove core.

  4. 4

    Remove the flesh from the skin and cut into cubes. Sprinkle with lemon juice.

  5. 5

    Mix lentil quinoa mixture with avocado, onion, carrots, tomatoes, vinaigrette and chopped coriander. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Divide the salad into glasses and garnish with the remaining coriander.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
540 kcal
CARBS
43 g
FATS
30 g
PROTEINS
19 g