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Ingredients:
1 cup uncooked quinoa
1 15 oz can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 cup chopped cucumber
1/3 diced onion
1/2 cup mint and parsley chopped
1/3 cup roasted pistachios
1/3-1/2 cup feta cheese or other sharp cheese, crumbled or grated
Dressing:
Juice of 2 lemons
1/3 cup olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Prepare quinoa according to package directions and cool. In a large bowl combine quinoa and remaining salad ingredients. In a small bowl juice the lemons and mix well to combine with oil, salt and pepper. Drizzle over salad and toss to coat. Enjoy!
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Hey everyone Emily here and welcome to my kitchen today I’m going to be making another recipe that I found on the internet this is one that was going around Tik Tok last year and I have made it a few times since I first saw it it’s called The Jennifer Aniston salad it’s a
Quinoa salad full of fresh vegetables some chickpeas and it makes a really great meal I was really craving it so I thought why not throw it together let’s see how it turns out the base of this salad is quinoa and I’ve started off by preparing one cup of uncooked quinoa on
The stove it’s a 2:1 ratio you add two cups of water to one cup of quinoa I have that cooling right now so I’m going to work on the rest of my salad ingredients so into a large bowl I’m going to start off by adding in one can of drained and rinsed
Chickpeas and now we’re going to do a little bit of chopping so I’ll add in about one cup or so of chopped cucumber you can be really rough on exact proportions add in whatever you like so this salad last year was trending on Tik Tok as the Jennifer
Aniston salad and everyone was saying that Jennifer Aniston ate this salad while she was on the set of friends and then Jennifer Aniston did an interview and said that it definitely wasn’t her salad but it sounded really good and she had more of a cob salad but it’s still
Called the Jennifer Aniston salad and if she thinks it sounds pretty good I guess you can still call it that and it is a very good salad next thing I’m going to chop up is about a third of a red onion needed about a third of a cup and I
Would say probably a third of this one should do the trick I’m going to chop my onion like I always do you leave the root intact so you slice right across that and then you make some Cuts right into the onion toward the root then you’ll make some cut
Across the top of the onion again toward the root but not cutting into the root turn that to the side then cut right across those cuts parallel to the root and you’ll have some nice pieces of onion I’ll add about A3 of a cup of that
Right into my salad bowl from here I’m going to move on to my herbs I’m going to chop up about a half2 cup of fresh flat leaf parsley add that into my salad bowl and the same amount of fresh mint this is a great salad for the summer because if you are
Growing mint that grows so well this is a really good way to use some of it up just bundle this up and give that a good chop toss that right in then the last ingredient for the salad before I move on to my dressing that’s going to be
About a thir to 1/4 cup however much you want of chopped roasted pistachios and if you don’t like pistachios or you would prefer another nut or you’re allergic you can switch this out or leave it out Al together I would think that roasted pine nuts would
Be really good in this or even some walnuts definitely a lot of options and I’ll pop that right into my salad last thing to do is to prepare the dressing for this and this is going to be a little bit of olive oil salt pepper and lemon juice so we’ll add in about
A/2 cup of olive oil maybe a little less maybe about a/ third cup crack in a little bit of pepper just do this to your taste a little bit of salt we are going to be adding in some cheese so that already has a little bit of saltiness to
It you don’t want to oversalt this and then we’ll do the juice of two lemons I’ll squeeze that right into my measuring cup now that I have my dressing ready I’m going to add in my cooled quinoa now this was only a cup of uncooked quinoa
So you can see it really does expand quite a bit I would say there’s probably about three cup in here now and now I’m going to sprinkle in my cheese this recipe does call for feta cheese and I’m just not a big fan so I’m subbing in some Parmesan and I just
Wanted to use another kind of sharp cheese so add in about a third of a cup however much you want now I am just going to give my dressing a Mix and then drizzle that right over the top of my salad just give this a toss to combine it all and this looks fantastic it smells so good and this is really great to enjoy right after you mix it together but if you’re making a big batch and of
Course I am this is just how much the recipe makes this does keep really well and the flavors all kind of combine really nicely so this is definitely one that you can make in advance and it’ll still taste really good over the next couple of days and here we are this looks amazing
And it’s going to taste so good let’s give this a try I’m just going to plate a little bit of this up get a little bit of everything in there and we’ll see how it came out I know it came out amazing this always does this one is really good I really
Hope you give it a try thanks so much for watching I hope you liked this video and if you did don’t forget to hit subscribe and the bell icon so you can get notified every time I post as always you can find the full recipe to this
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