Nourishing Quinoa Delight.
You can cook Nourishing Quinoa Delight using 28 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Nourishing Quinoa Delight
- It's 1/2 cup of Quinoa.
- It's 1 cup of Water.
- Prepare 1 of medium sized Tomato.
- You need 1 of medium sized Onion.
- Prepare 1/2 of Yellow Capsicum.
- It's 1 of Cucumber.
- You need 1/2 of Mango.
- It's 1 bunch of Coriander and Mint leaves.
- You need 1 tbsp of crumbled Feta cheese.
- You need of For the dressing.
- It's 1 of small Lemon.
- It's 1 tsp of crushed Black pepper.
- You need 1 tsp of crushed Cumin seeds.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Chat masala.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of Olive oil.
- You need 1/2 tsp of Sugar.
- It's to taste of Salt.
- Prepare of For the second layer.
- It's 1 of small Avocado.
- Prepare 1/2 of Beetroot.
- You need 1 of Peach.
- Prepare of For garnishing.
- Prepare 1/2 of Avocado.
- It's 1/2 of Peach.
- You need as needed of Coriander leaves without stem.
- You need as needed of water Spinach or Spinach.
- It's 1 tsp of roasted Flax seeds.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Chilli flakes.
Nourishing Quinoa Delight step by step
- Take 1/2 cup quinoa, rinse and wash properly..
- Cook quinoa with 1 cup of water exactly like cooking rice..
- When quinoa cooks completely, remove from heat and fluff with a fork..
- Keep aside to cool down to room temperature..
- Now clean all the vegetables, fruits and herbs..
- Chop cucumber(deseeded), yellow capsicum, tomato(deseeded),onion and coriander-mint leaves.Also chop 1/2 of a ripe mango..
- For the dressing take juice of a lemon, 3 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of crushed black pepper, 1 teaspoon of crushed cumin seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of chat masala, sugar and salt to a mixing bowl..
- Mix everything well with a fork and keep aside..
- Take another mixing bowl and add all the chopped vegetables, chopped mango and chopped herbs..
- Also add cooked quinoa and crumbled feta cheese..
- Add 2/3rd of the prepared dressing to the salad and mix well..
- Now for the second layer cut 1/2 of an avocado, 1/2 of a beetroot and 1/2 of a peach in small pieces..
- Add the rest of the dressing to the pieces and mix well..
- Now for the assembling take one 5-6 inch diameter bowl and line with cling wrap so that it will be easy to invert the bowl to a serving dish..
- Make a thick layer of the prepared mango salad by pressing the mixture with a spoon..
- Now arrange the avocado salad above the mango salad to make a second layer..
- Press nicely to make the layers firm..
- Take a white serving plate and invert the salad bowl to the plate very carefully..
- Discard the cling wrap carefully. Beautiful layered nutritious salad is now ready..
- Now for the garnishing cut remaining avocado and peach in long slices and garnish as you like. Also add some spinach leaves and coriander leaves to make the salad beautiful..
- Sprinkle some roasted flax seeds and chilli flakes. Serve this beautiful and healthy salad to your guest..
