Summer fruit quinoa salad

Healthy summer recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has quinoa, peach, hazelnut, mint, parsley, olive oil and lemon.

Summer fruit quinoa salad

Summer fruit quinoa salad

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Healthy summer
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

15 mins

Ingredients

  • Olive Oil: 2 tbsp olive oil
  • Mint: handful mint, roughly chopped
  • Parsley: handful parsley, roughly chopped
  • Lemon: zest and juice 1 lemon
  • Quinoa: 100g quinoa
  • Peach: 3 peaches or nectarines, or 6 apricots, diced
  • Hazelnut: 50g toasted hazelnut, roughly chopped

Directions

  1. Put the quinoa in a medium saucepan and cover with 300ml water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 20 mins or until the quinoa is tender. Drain off any excess liquid and set aside to cool.
  2. Add the fruit, hazelnuts, herbs and seasoning to the cooled quinoa.
  3. Whisk together the olive oil, lemon zest and juice. Pour over the salad and mix thoroughly.