This is one of our favourite salads. I love the red and green colours in it, which will look beautiful on a Christmas table.
Ingredients
Tabouli:
- 100g quinoa
- 800g boiling water from kettle
- 1 small continental cucumber
- ½ - 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
- ½ small red onion, peeled
- 2 bunches flat leaf parsley, leaves only
- 6 mint leaves
- 1 avocado, diced
Lemon Dressing
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 40g olive oil
- 20g lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- pepper, to taste
Instructions
Tabouli:
- Pour boiling water into TM bowl. Weigh quinoa in simmering basket then lower basket carefully into TM bowl and cook 22 mins / Varoma / speed 1.
- Once cooked, place quinoa in a dish/container and fluff up quinoa with a fork and place into fridge. (If in a rush, place in the freezer for 15 mins).
- While quinoa is cooling, dice up cucumber and halve cherry tomatoes and place into a salad bowl.
- Place onion, parsley and mint into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 5. Check to see if it requires another second of chopping and then empty into a salad bowl.
No need to wash TM bowl.
Lemon Dressing:
- Place all dressing ingredients into TM bowl and mix 10 sec / speed 8.
- Add cooled quinoa, avocado and dressing into salad bowl and combine well.
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