15 Min Vegetable Rice Quinoa Salad
I love quick and easy.
Which means I love this ready in 15 min veggie loaded rice and quinoa salad that has got weeknight suppers totally covered. I am talking a gazillion fresh crunchy vegetables (no cooking required) all mixed in with some brown rice and red quinoa (10 mins cooking required) and completed with a tiny splash of tamari soy sauce. Quick healthy goodness in a bowl. I hear your yummmmmmmms.
The cook in 10 mins rice and red quinoa are actually part of a fab hamper of quick cook grains I received from Clearspring. Their other products (especially their sushi rice, miso and noodles) have long been staples in my kitchen. I like using them as everything they produce is free from GMO, artificial additives or refined ingredients and are organic as far as possible. And now that they have added these quick cook grains to their list, I like them even more.
Please use this salad recipe as a guide. Throw in whatever vegetables you have left in your fridge in whatever combination that you like. For meat eaters you can easily thrown in some chorizo or some quick grilled bacon. This salad is also great for lunchboxes, gluten free and vegan diets.
I made this the third time for an impromptu supper party a few weeks back when OH told me with 30 mins to spare that he had guests coming over. Luckily it worked well with the three left over sauces I had in the fridge ie pesto, lemon yoghurt and sweet chilli sauce.
So here is my quick vegetable quinoa rice salad recipe and I would love to know what variations you would have in yours.
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15 Min Vegetable Rice Quinoa Salad
Ingredients
- 150 g (1 cup) Clearspring quick cook rice and quinoa
- 1-2 tbsp tamari
- 1 carrot grated
- 4 cherry tomatoes chopped
- 4 radishes sliced
- 1/2 red bell pepper chopped
- 2 spring onions scallions sliced
- 1 handful of salad greens
Instructions
- Add rice and quinoa into a pot of boiling water and simmer for 10 mins.
- Drain rice and quinoa mix and let cool.
- Add the rice and quinoa into a bowl and mix in all the other ingredients and serve.
Notes
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This looks amazing Bintu!! Brown rice and quinoa?? Power salad!
Got a whole load more power salads up my sleeve too.
power, colour, vegetable and taste packed! what a mighty recipe x
I like ya description Deena – I might have to borrow it.
I love quick and easy, too! And this is double great because you can use up all those lingering veggies from the market or bags of frozen veggies!
This quinoa salad looks amazing, Bintu! Love the flavours!
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Looks and sounds devious and simple to make. Thanks for sharing
Sorry should say delicious
Maybe I could serve it over Halloween and call it the devious salad Michelle, 😀
This looks like a gorgeous salad and so simple to make too x
Awwwww, I am blushing
This looks so tasty and I am a BIG fan of quinoa too Bintu! Karen
I really like quinoa but find it difficult to get the red quinoa near me so it was good to be able to use the Clearspring combo pack.
This looks so good! I’ll be on the lookout for the Clearspring quick cook rice and quinoa 🙂
Great A, you will not be disappointed.
I love the idea of mixing rice and quinoa, Bintu! I’ve never used red quinoa either, so that intrigues me a bit.
I think I’d add courgette and roasted peppers – I love Mediterranean veggies!
Since this was meant to be a quick recipes I wanted to keep it all fresh and quick. But I am certainly on you with adding more veggies.
Looks very yummy and fresh!! I need to give this recipe a go soon 😀
Melissa x
Great way to use your left over veggies etc
Lovely fresh salad I love meals like this that you can do in the one bowl
Thanks Naomi.
Looks delicious Bintu! I love quinoa so much – tonight I made a quinoa stir fry for dinner (yuhm) so I could definitely get on this!
Quinoa stir-fry sound really, really good. I have not yet tried that but on my to do list.
I bet this is really tasty, I love the fact that you have the wonderful grains and can use up the fridge left overs. GG
Yes that is what is so great about the Clearspring grains.
These quick cook grains are fabulous bintu and your salad looks healthy and delicious – just what I need.
Thanks Choclette.
What a delicious sounding salad! I love that it is so quick to make as well. x
That is the beauty of the Clearspring quick cook grains Sarah.
Looks really delicious. I will have to try this
Thanks Germaine – let me know what you think when you do.
What a gorgeous salad! I too received this hamper and isn’t it fantastic! I’ve not tried the rice/quinoa combo yet though – bookmarking this recipe!
Ohhhh – what recipes have you tried with these? I really like them and have so many more ideas with what to do.
This looks so delicious. I’m not a fan of brown rice but I do really like quinoa. I have only ever had it sweet with honey but would love to try it savoury. I usually have a lot of salad left over in my fridge will have to try it with with that one day.
The brown rice works rally well in this combo – honestly. Might be worth a try but if not then the salad should work to with just quinoa.