Quinoa Salad

The new trend these days seems to be eating healthy and living the healthy life style. My family has been working on improving our eating habits, and one of our favorite healthy recipes is a Quinoa Salad recipe. I discovered this recipe on a YouTube channel named “Shayloss”. As the chef in this video states this meal is “power-packed awesomeness!” Ingredients: • 2 cups Quinoa • ½ Cup Cilantro • 2 Lime • 1 Jalapeno • 1 Green Pepper • 1 Onion • 2 ½ Tomatoes • 5 Garlic Cloves • 1 can of Corn • 1 can of Black Beans • 1 Tsp. Salt • 1 Tbsp. Cumin • ¼ cup Olive Oil • Tortilla wrap (As needed) • Tortilla Chip (As needed) Procedure: Rinse 2 cups of Quinoa, and pour into pot containing three cups of water. Leave on simmer for 20min. stirring occasionally. (Make sure all water cooks out!) Dice the jalapeno, green pepper, cilantro and, tomatoes. (Dice should be small enough to fit on a chip). Add the vegetables to the bowl including the corn and black beans. Next, dice onion and garlic and sauté together in a small fry pan. And add to bowl containing other vegetables. After that add the quinoa to the vegetables. Next, mix the olive oil, cumin, and salt into a small mixing bowl. And once mixed together pour onto quinoa and vegetables, and also squeeze limes over mixture too. One of my favorite things about this recipe is that it is so easy to personalize it. For example, when I make the recipe I do not add in the green pepper or the jalepeno. And when my step-mom makes it she adds a lot more cilantro then I do because she likes it that way. The best way to find the best mix is to make the recipe and then try it and see what you think would taste good or if you think it needs more of something. But remember you can always add more but you can’t take stuff out. When it comes to eating the quiona salad there are a lot of options! One of these optons is to put some in a tortilla wrap and make a quinoa burrito, or use the quinoa as a dip and eat it with a couple torilla chips. And of coarse you can always eat it plain. But, my personal favorite is to put some quinoa salad in the burrito and then crunch up some tortilla chips in the wrap to give it some crunch. Quinoa is extremely nourishing and filling, and the great thing is quinoa makes great leftovers! So you can eat it for lunch or dinner and snack on it the next day. Or if your going to a party it’s a great appatizer to bring. And in my expierance it is always a party favorite! If you want to see a video of the recipe you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCcOubnEsxk Katelynn,M