Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a simple dish, quinoa tabbouleh. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Quinoa, once a staple grain of ancient Incas, is tossed with lemon juice, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, green onions and parsley. Tabbouleh is a grain- and vegetable-based salad traditionally made with bulgur wheat. In this recipe, quinoa is first toasted to deepen its flavor, then cooked by the absorption method and combined with herbs and vegetables.

Quinoa Tabbouleh is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Quinoa Tabbouleh is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have quinoa tabbouleh using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Quinoa Tabbouleh:

1. Make ready 1 cup uncooked quinoa
2. Get 1/2 medium onion, chopped
3. Take 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
4. Get 1 tablespoon minced parsley
5. Get 1 small cucumber, chopped
6. Get 1/2 teaspoon minced mint
7. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, minced
8. Take 1/2 teaspoon teaspoon garlic powder
9. Take 1 tablespoon olive oil
10. Get 2 tablespoons lemon juice or to taste
11. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Salt
12. Take 1/4 th teaspoon black pepper powder

Stir the onions, tomatoes, parsley, mint, and garlic into the warm quinoa. This quinoa tabbouleh is one of my go-to recipes. Quinoa, a grain that originated in South America, is considered a superfood because it contains more protein than most grains. Instead of using bulgur like traditional tabbouleh, this recipe uses quinoa.

Instructions to make Quinoa Tabbouleh:

1. Rinse the quinoa under cool water thoroughly to remove the layer of saponin and combine with 2 cups of water and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a pressure cooker upto just one whistle.
2. Switch off the flame and let the pressure release by itself.
3. Open the lid and you find the quinoa is fluffy and chewy.
4. Meanwhile gather all the ingredients
5. Empty the cooked quinoa into a large bowl and allow it to cool almost to room temperature.
6. Stir the onions, tomatoes, parsley, mint, and garlic powder into the warm quinoa.
7. Pour the olive oil, black pepper powder and lemon juice over the salad and stir to combine.
8. Serve at room temperature or cold.
9. My tip - This salad is even better the next day, once the flavors have had fully infused into each other

It looks and tastes better than bulgur. My husband and I both love this and neither of us is vegetarian. It's a great meal for a hot summer day. The longer it sits the better it tastes. This quinoa tabbouleh recipe is a spin on a traditional tabbouleh using quinoa instead of bulgur wheat!

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