This Healthy Pimento Cheese Recipe is delicious and will fulfill your pimento cheese craving in the form of a quinoa salad! Pimento cheese is one of my favorite snacks ever since I discovered it during a trip to Charleston, SC! I always crave it and wanted to come up with a Healthy Pimento Cheese Recipe. In making this recipe, I basically put a lot of the spices that I would include in a pimento cheese dip within the dressing, and incorporated quinoa and a lot of collard greens to give it a healthy boost! Pimento cheese has been on my mind and wanted to enjoy a health version of it. I love this Healthy Pimento Cheese Recipe and know that you will love it too – my fellow Pimento Cheese lovers!
Pimento Cheese and Collards Quinoa Salad
Ingredients
- 1 cup quinoa uncooked
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 1 bunch of collard greens finely chopped
- 1 4 oz jar of diced pimento peppers drained*
- 1 4 oz sharp cheddar cheese grated**
- 1 4 oz Monterey jack cheese grated**
Dressing Ingredients:
- 3 T extra virgin olive oil
- 1 T apple cider vinegar
- 1 Juice of a Meyer lemon***
- A Few splashes of Frank’s hot sauce****
- 2 teas Country Dijon mustard*****
- 2 teas honey
- 1/2 teas sea salt
- 1/2 teas black pepper
- 1/2 teas hot smoked paprika
- 1/2 teas sweet paprika
- 1/2 teas onion powder
- 1/2 teas garlic powder
- 1/2 teas chili powder
Instructions
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Cook quinoa according to package directions, but with adding a garlic clove crushed before you put the lid on it to cook.