Quinoa Salad

As a part of my Thanksgiving dinner I also made Quinoa salad. It was simple but quite good. Paired well with the other food that I made.

This is how I made it.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup quinoa
• 1 1/2 cups cold water
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 cup snow peas, shell peas, celery, or green beans
• 2 small carrots, peeled and sliced thin
• 1/2 green or red pepper, sliced thin
• 1 medium ripe tomato

Dressing:

• 2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

Quinoa can be made ahead of time and refrigerated. Put quinoa with the water and salt in a pot. Cover the pot, bring to a full boil, turn the heat to low, and cook for 15 minutes. You know that the quinoa is done when there are small white threads coming out of the quinoa. Remove from heat and set aside to cool

You can either steam the carrots and green veg for 5 minutes or until tender-crisp, drain, rinse in cold water and drain again or you can have them fresh. Which is what I did. Chop the tomatoes. 

Blend dressing ingredients with a whisk.

Gently combine veggies, quinoa and dressing in a large bowl

Cover and chill, or serve immediately

Delicious healthy food

Avocado Grape and Lentil Salad

I made this salad one evening at around 11 o clock when I was SO hungry I could have eaten a horse.And I am so glad I did because this has become my favorite salad till date.Super easy to make....super tasty and super healthy.

This is what you need

• zest of 2 lemon (which is nothing but grated outer covering of the lemon)
• cucumber
• red pepper
• red grapes (no problem if you don't have red grapes....green grapes are just fine...its just that adding the red grapes gives the salad a delicious colour)
• green grapes
• avocados
• lemon juice
• extra virgin olive oil
• salt to taste.
• any lentil...I used masur....red lentil.

Take some water and bring it to a boil.Add some salt to this water and boil the lentil in it till they are just done and not mushy.Boil them and drain them just like you would do a pasta.Set them aside to cool.

For the dressing...take the Olive oil, juice of the lemon and salt to taste and whip them together well.

For the rest of the veggies chop them to bite sizes...or whatever size you want and mix them well...add the cooled lentil and the dressing.Mix and enjoy.

YUMMMMM....like I said.The bestest Salad ever!!

Cucumber Raita

ok this one is one of the simplest dish to make.and very low cal and very very healthy.

this is what you do.take cucumber and chop it into small pieces (you can substitute cucumber with anything of your choice...fruit, onions and cucumber....go crazy in your head).add 1/4 cup curd to half cup of this chopped cucumber.to this add salt according to your taste.add a pinch of rock salt.and 1/2 teaspoon of chat masala.and 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder

and thats it.this shouldn't even be included as a receipe..