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Greek Quinoa Salad

This Greek Quinoa Salad is an easy and delicious salad that is perfect for BBQ season!  It pairs beautifully with any grilled meats.

Greek Quinoa Salad

This time of year makes me restless. I want the heat of summer.  I want the wind to go away.  I don’t want the threat of snow anymore. It’s not quite summer, but there are hints of it teasing us.  It’s enough to drive one insane! One of the ways I pretend it is summer is to BBQ.  All.  The.  Time. It’s like having the BBQ going means that summer has to be here.  

It has to be here.  It has to be here…I digress…this post is about salad. Greek Quinoa Salad. Which, coincidentally goes amazingly with BBQ chickenThis recipe was an experiment combining two of my favourite foods:  quinoa and greek salad! You can’t really go wrong with a good greek salad dressing and what ever salad fixings you like…adding quinoa just seemed like the right thing to do.  🙂

Fresh.  Healthy.  Delish!

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Greek Quinoa Salad

This Greek Quinoa Salad is an easy and delicious salad that is perfect for BBQ season!  It pairs beautifully with any grilled meats.

Ingredients

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Dressing

  • 6 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp red vinegar (add more or less according to your tastebuds!)
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • salt & pepper

Salad Ingredients

  • 1 cup cooked and cooled quinoa
  • 1 cup black olives (regular or kalamata)
  • 1/23/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
  • 1/2 cup chopped cucumber
  • 1/2 cup chopped bell peppers
  • 2 large tomatoes (chopped (or cut a handful of grape tomatoes half))
  • 1 tbsp minced red onion

Instructions

  1. Whisk together all the salad dressing ingredients. Set aside.
  2. In a salad bowl, toss all the salad ingredients with the dressing.
  3. Serve and enjoy!

Keywords: Greek salad, quinoa salad

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Dressing recipe adapted from the Joy of Cooking

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Greek Quinoa Salad Recipe Tips!

  • This recipe is perfect for using up leftover quinoa.
  • It’s great served with anything BBQ’d, especially roasted chicken.
  • You can serve this salad immediately, or it’s even better served after it has sat for a while (an hour or so, or even the next day!)

Greek Quinoa Salad

So today again, I will turn on my BBQ and pretend that we aren’t going to get snow, in May, this Thursday. I’m keeping positive…

Have a delicious (and warm sunny) day!

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  1. Yummo! I love a good salad recipe for Summer. Especially one like this that I can use as a side for a couple of days. Love the simplicity of it to. And snow? Really? I have parents and friends who live near you, I’ll have to warn them!