I love a great Pasta Salad! Pasta Salad is the perfect dish to make for either a Summer side dish or a meal. Jimmy loves this pasta salad too! This Pasta Salad recipe is flavorful and refreshing with the delicious tastes of fresh herbs, lemon, and feta, with lots of spinach! You can make this Pasta Salad on a food prep day and enjoy it all week! It would also be a big hit at a party or picnic! I know you will love this Pasta Salad as much as we do!
I made this Vegetarian Gochujang Recipe one weekend when we were making some Korean tacos. This Gochujang Slaw is the perfect topping for the tacos. The Vegetarian Gochujang Recipe provides amazing texture and flavor to the tacos! This Vegetarian Gochujang Recipe can be paired with many dishes and is great as a side dish! I love the flavor of Gochujang, and this is a healthy way to enjoy it!
Place all slaw ingredients in a large bowl and mix to combine.
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!
Cook quinoa according to package directions, but with adding a garlic clove crushed before you put the lid on it to cook.
I have never had tried Purple Potatoes until I received some in my Misfits Market delivery. Now, I love them! Purple Potatoes are pretty, colorful and they taste very similar to red potatoes. One weekend, we were making some sandwiches and wanted some potato salad as a side dish, so I decided to experiment with the Purple Potatoes. This Purple Potato salad turned out amazing and I know you will love them as much as we did! It would be a great dish to bring to a picnic, barbecue or an outdoor party!
If you have some Purple Potatoes on hand, try this Purple Potato salad! It is amazing and I know you will love them as much as we did!
This Quinoa Salad tastes so cool and refreshing, it is perfect for the Summer! Summer is prime time for cucumbers and tomatoes. A perfect way to enjoy those fresh summer delights are in this salad! This is also a perfect salad to make ahead of time during a food prepping session.
Cook quinoa according to package directions and let cool.
Put all ingredients in a medium sized mixing bowl and mix.
Place in refrigerator for at least a half hour before serving.
To speed up the cooling of the quinoa, you can pop it in the refrigerator for about 15-20 minutes. Or you can make the quinoa earlier in the day or the day before.
This is a perfect recipe to make a head on a food prep day.
To make this salad Vegan, leave out the Feta, as it is still delicious!
Most of my produce I use to make my recipes is organic and delivered straight to my front door from Mistfits Market! Check them out – I LOVE it!
Also, check out my other Quinoa Salad Recipes: Quinoa Tabbouleh, Quinoa Caprese Salad
I have been challenging myself with making more plant-based meals and oil free Vegan Salad Dressing. I used to only eat creamy salad dressings such as Ranch, Caesar, and Creamy Italian. But those dressings are usually be high in calories and fat, which kind of defeats the point of trying to be healthy and eat a salad. I have been finding that Healthy Vegan Salad Dressing can still be tasty. And doesn’t come with all that guilt. This dressing is so good, I could eat it with a spoon!
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Dressing can be made ahead (on a food prep Sunday) to save time to have a quick meal on a busy week night; this will keep well for a few days in the refrigerator.
For another Vegan Salad Dressing, check out the dressing in this recipe also: Kale and Quinoa Salad with Spicy Thai Peanut Dressing
Zahav is one of my top favorite restaurants in Philadelphia! In the beginning of dinner, they give you an amazing spread of various Israeli salads. One of those salads is a Beet Salad. I never really liked Beets. I LOVE the Zahav Beet Salad! You can even buy the Zahav cookbook, which I did! The Beet Salad recipe is in this cookbook! The Zahav version in the cookbook uses fresh beets and a lot of salt. This Tahini Beet salad is a healthy spin of Zahav’s Beet Salad. It attempts to be easier (uses canned beets) and healthier (less salt). This salad will turn you into a beet lover! Try this recipe and try the real thing at the Zahav restaurant!
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This can be paired with other appetizers and salads for a fun Mediterranean meal or party! Try it with my other recipes such as Roasted Eggplant and Red Pepper Spread, Caramelized Onion Hummus, Quinoa Tabbouleh Salad, Roasted Zucchini Red Pepper Garlic Dip and grilled Pita Bread! I made this as a side for Thanksgiving – it is a great alternative to Cranberry Sauce!
I LOVE getting the house salads as sushi / Japanese restaurants since the Orange Ginger Dressing is so tasty! There are several ways I have been making this Orange Ginger Dressing, and here is one of my versions that includes Miso Paste. Orange Ginger Dressing is oil free and extremely healthy. I hope you enjoy this version of Orange Ginger Dressing as much as I do!
Dressing can be made ahead (on a food prep Sunday) to save time to have a quick meal on a busy week night; this will keep well for a few days in the refrigerator.
The above salad ingredients can make about 2 large salads or 4 small salads.
You will likely have extra dressing to make more salads.
For dinner one night, try pairing this salad with one of my miso soup recipes: Miso Veggie Noodle Soup or Miso Soup with Veggies and Quinoa.
Dressing can be made ahead (on a food prep Sunday) to save time to have a quick meal on a busy week night; this will keep well for a few days in the refrigerator. This dressing can be spicy to some who do not like spicy; you can always reduce the amount of sriracha or omit depending on your spice tolerance (or of course add more if you like spicy). The above salad makes 2 servings, but the dressing makes more, so you could use the dressing on another day for more of this salad or some other salad variation.
This is one of my favorite Summer Salad Recipes! It is approaching the end of the summer season, so over the weekend, I went to Springdale Farms in Cherry Hill, NJ to get some Jersey Fresh ingredients. The ingredients are super fresh and blend well together, which makes for a delicious fresh summer salad! This will soon be one of your favorite Summer Salad Recipes!
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