Quinoa salad with sweet potatoes

AUTHOR
Lenora Decker
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4.3 3
COOK TIME
35 mins
TOTAL TIME
35 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 200 g Quinoa
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 2 sweet potatoes (400-500 g)
  • 8 Radishes
  • 100 g Arugula
  • 1 can (425 ml) Kidney beans
  • 1 large, ripe avocado (about 300 g)
  • 2 small red chillies
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Raspberry vinegar
  • 1 TEASPOON ground cinnamon
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • 75 g roasted and salted pistachios
  • 75 g dried cranberries

Directions

  1. 1

    Place the quinoa in a sieve, rinse and cook in boiling salted water according to the instructions on the packet. Drain if necessary. Quench, drain and leave to cool for 10-15 minutes.

  2. 2

    In the meantime peel and wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into cubes of about 2 cm. Clean, wash and slice the radishes. Clean or sort the rocket, wash, shake dry and chop finely. Pour kidney beans into a sieve, rinse and drain. Halve the avocado. Remove the core and remove the flesh from the skin. Cut the flesh into cubes. Mix everything.

  3. 3

    Clean the chilli, cut lengthwise, wash and remove the seeds. Finely chop the pod. Mix vinegar, cinnamon and chili, add oil drop by drop, season with salt, pepper and sugar. Remove the pistachios from their shells and chop them coarsely.

  4. 4

    Add the cranberries and quinoa to the mixed ingredients and mix in, drizzle the vinaigrette over it and mix again. Arrange salad in bowls, sprinkle with the pistachios.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
710 kcal
CARBS
84 g
FATS
34 g
PROTEINS
19 g

Categories & Tags

Main Dishesvegan