Name: Summer fruit quinoa salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 100g quinoa; 3 peaches or nectarines, or 6 apricots, diced; 50g toasted hazelnut roughly chopped; handful mint roughly chopped; handful parsley roughly chopped; 2 tbsp olive oil; zest and juice 1 lemon

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Summer fruit quinoa salad

Summer fruit quinoa salad

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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Jazz up this good-for-you grain with some stone fruits like apricots, peaches and nectarines- add a little mint and parsley for colour and flavour

Gluten-free

Healthy

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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100g quinoa
3 peaches

or nectarines, or 6 apricots, diced
50g toasted hazelnut

roughly chopped
handful mint

roughly chopped
handful parsley

roughly chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
zest and juice 1 lemon

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal236
fat15g
saturates2g
carbs20g
sugars8g
fibre2g
protein6g
salt0g

Method

step 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.
step 2

Add the fruit, hazelnuts, herbs and seasoning to the cooled quinoa.
step 3

Whisk together the olive oil, lemon zest and juice. Pour over the salad and mix thoroughly.

RECIPE TIPS

SEASONAL FRUIT

You can use canned fruit instead of fresh if you're making this salad out of season.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2013

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