Mediterranean Quinoa Salad is a wonderfully filling and healthy dish and packed with vibrant ingredients like tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, black olives, bell peppers, feta cheese, parsley, mint, and Greek dressing.
Cook quinoa according to the package instructions, fluff it, and transfer into a bowl. Let it cook for a few minutes before adding chopped vegetables and cheese. Pro Tip: use chicken or vegetable broth to cook the quinoa and add a little salt. This will give your quinoa a nice flavor.
While quinoa is cooking, dice tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, and red onion. Mince parsley and mint and set aside. Measure remaining ingredients so it's all ready to go.
Once quinoa is cooled, mix in vegetables, feta cheese, herbs, and Greek dressing until thoroughly incorporated.
Storing:
Store quinoa salad in an air-tight food storage container, in the refrigerator. This salad will last about 2-3 days in the refrigerator, any longer than that and the fresh veggies just won't be good and quinoa will start to dry out.
Notes
Make Ahead: You can cook quinoa ahead of time and then add all the veggies, feta and the dressing to it when you’re ready. If you want to prepare the whole salad ahead of time, that will work as well but don’t make it more than 1 day ahead of the veggies will be soft and wilted. Make sure to store it in the air-tight food storage container with a lid and in the refrigerator.Adding meat: You can mix in leftover chicken or cook some chicken to add to the salad. It will taste great in this quinoa salad, especially if you make some Greek Marinated Chicken. Salmon is another great protein that’ll go wonderfully with this salad. You can make Balsamic Glazed Salmon, Whole Salmon Filet, or Blackened Salmon. To make it easy on yourself, you can even add some chopped rotisserie chicken