Quinoa Tabouleh

After days or years of bad eating habit, time to time I like to eat simple foods. And we tried to have at least few days of non meat meals and favour for foods like veges soup and lots of salad. Quite difficult for a meat eater/lover like me I have to admit, but hubby love this kind of dinner. He could eat soup any time and at any season too. For me, soup mean winter..though in Malaysia we do eat soup during meal but since moving out from the country, I tend to associate it with a wintry cold in France.

Last week, while blog hopping, I tumble across this recipe, Quinoa Tabouleh. Instead of using bulghur, we used quinoa here..Quinoa, maybe not many know about this healthy grains, a good replacement for rice and a sought after for people who can't take gluten and for the vegetarian too as quinoa is a source of protein.

Quinoa Tabouleh

Ingredients:

1 cup quinoa

1 tsp salt

1/2 cup fresh mint

1/2 onion

1 large ripe tomato

1/2 cup cucumber

4 tbsp extra virgin oil

1/2 lemon juice or more

Rinse the quinoa using a strainer or sieve. Place in a pot with salt and 2 cup of water. Bring to boil, then lower the heat and cover, cook slowly for 15 mins or all liquid has been absorbed.

Now turn off the heat and stir the quinoa. Let it sit for about 10 mins or until it cool down a bit. Once cool, fluff up with a fork, cooked quinoa should be fluffy and the curl like germ will separately slightly from the seed.

While it cooling down, chop the mint, dice the cucumber, tomato and onion. Add these to the cool quinoa with lemon juice and olive oil. Stir well to combine everything and serve at the room temperature.

Recipe credit to: http://www.everyday-vegetarian-recipes.com/quinoa-tabouli.html