Quinoa Salad Contest on 20 Minute Supper Club Website

Are you looking for new quinoa salad ideas? How would you like to feast your eyes on 16 recipes at once? You're bound to find at least one that piques your interest.

Quinoa Salad Contest

Having squeezed out the last of my sour grapes, I finally popped over to the 20 Minute Supper Club website to check out the quinoa salads vying in the November 2010 Favourite Food Fight. Wow, the competition there is incredible.

Once again quinoa's versatility blows my mind. I have linked to the individual recipes below because the contest page will change at the end of the month, but if you are reading this in November 2010 be sure to visit the voting page where you can see all the photos on one page. Take a look at the recipes that interest you and vote for the ones you are most likely to make. 

Mexican Quinoa Salad

Queenie Bean Salad

Quinoa Salad with Tomato, Basil & Parmesan

Quinoa Patties with Mushroom and Goat Cheese

Sensational Quinoa Mediterranean Salad

Autumn Quinoa with Beets and Apricots

Summery Shrimp Quinoa Salad

Red & White Quinoa Mushroom Risotto

Katryna's Quinoa

Warm Quinoa Fela Salad

Mulled Apple Cider Quinoa

Roasted Red Pepper and Feta Quinoa Salad

Curried Vegetable Quinoa

Pecan Quinoa Salad

Autumn Quinoa Salad

Cranberry Mango Quinoa Salad

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Easy Quinoa Salad

After soaking quinoa overnight, I tweeted to see if anyone had a good recipe.

@waterlilyto tweeted an easy salad recipe that looked perfect, so I went to the store to get some canned beans and cilantro.

One of my sons won't eat black beans, so I bought light kidney beans instead. Didn't he then take one look at the salad and declare he doesn't like kidney beans?

Wrong answer, buddy. You can only hate one bean at a time in my house.

I substituted rice vinegar because I bought it last week and I am not going to rush out and buy another vinegar any time soon.

I forgot the corn. I didn't realize my omission until we were eating.

Easy Quinoa Salad

1 cup dry quinoa, soaked overnight (about 2 cups)
1 can light kidney beans
1 can chickpeas
1/4 cup chopped sweet onions
1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
2 tsps rice vinegar
2 tsps olive oil
Juice of one large lime
Salt and pepper to taste

Large lime and penny

Drain and discard the liquid from the bean cans and rinse the beans. Mix all the ingredients together in one bowl and then let it rest about fifteen minutes before eating.

Could it be any easier? Not without eliminating the fresh ingredients that make it taste so good.

The quinoa has a crunchy quality prepared this way that works well with the crisp vegetables and soft beans. If you prefer to use cooked quinoa, 2 or 3 cups of cooked and cooled quinoa should work well in this recipe.

Ceviche Quinoa

My son, the one who now hates black and kidney beans, loved the flavors of this salad and kept calling it ceviche. I had never heard of ceviche, but a Wikipedia search shows this seafood dish originated in Peru. This makes these seasonings seem somehow true to the heritage of quinoa to me, even though there was no seafood in the dish.

Please comment with your recipes for soaked quinoa and let me know if you tried making this easy quinoa salad.

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