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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad With Feta Cheese

This Mediterranean Quinoa Salad With Feta Cheese is one of my favorite dishes to make for lunch meal preps, as a side dish, or to bring on a picnic. It is flavorful, packed with protein, and packs well in to-go containers. The best part is that it is extremely easy to throw together.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Course lunch, Main Course, Salad, Side Dish
Cuisine Mediterranean, middle eastern
Servings 6

Equipment

  • large pot or rice cooker
  • large mixing bowl

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 Cup White Quinoa
  • 1 Can Garbanzo Beans Drained and rinsed
  • 1/2 Cup Kalamata Olives
  • 6 OZ Feta Cheese Crumbled into small pieces
  • 1 Cup Parsley Stemmed and lightly chopped
  • 3/4 Cup Cherry Tomatos Washed & halved
  • 1/4 Large White Onion Diced
  • 3 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 1/2 Juice of fresh lemon
  • 1/2 TBSP Salt
  • 1/4 TBSP Black Pepper
  • 1 1/2 TBSP Dried Mint Crushed in your hands before adding into the salad

Instructions
 

  • Cook the quinoa as the instructions on package state. I personally combine 1 1/2 cups of quinoa with 3 cups of water and cook this in my rice cooker.
  • While the quinoa cooks wash & chop all of the listed produce above (parsley, tomatoes, and onion) and drain & rinse the garbanzo beans.
  • After the quinoa cooks, measure out 3 cups into a large mixing bowl and allow this to cool (to not wilt the parsley).
  • After the quinoa has cooled combine all of the listed ingredients into the large bowl. Mix well & serve!
Keyword Mediterranean Quinoa Salad, Mediterranean Quinoa Salad With Feta Cheese