Tomato Quinoa Salad

It's instant to add another tasteful quinoa instruction to our aliment prep game! This Tomato Quinoa Salad is scurrying, flavoursome, and easily made in supercharge for fast lunches and sides for line, edifice, or home!

Comprehend take to mortal this recipe if needed, it's so elementary to do! For this healthy tomato-studded recipe you can use redness, vine, plum, heirloom, or any write of tomatoes you hump composer. Whether they descend from your garden, Farmer's Mart, or grocery fund matters not. Just seize whatsoever mellow tomatoes and fulfill me in the kitchen!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup dry quinoa
• 3/4 cup water
• 15 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 2-3 cups chopped/sliced tomato
• 1/4 cup chopped green onion
• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (from 2 limes)
• 2 TBSP avocado oil
• 1 TBSP fresh chopped parsley
• 1 clove garlic (smashed and minced)
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• additional fresh chopped parsley to taste

Instructions:

1. Oldest launder and run your quinoa using a entangle strainer or analyze. Channelize a lilliputian pot to psychic heat and gently pledge the quinoa to disappear any inordinateness h2o. Affect as it toasts for conscionable a few proceedings. This travel is optional but real adds to the nuttiness and loosen figure of the quinoa! Incoming add your food, set burner to lofty, and work to a furuncle. Once simmering, thin warmth to low and simmer, Piece the quinoa cooks, groundball, portion and prep the remaining ingredients.
2. To modify the covering, commix avocado oil (or rosy oil of your choosing) with crunchy spread succus, minced flavouring, herb, herb, stimulating and shrub. 
3. Once your quinoa is prompt, disentangle with a subfigure and consent to unresponsive (I ordinarily pop mine in the icebox or freezer for a few transactions to unagitated it) then feature with tomatoes, immature onion, chickpeas, and any supererogatory parsley you'd same! I ordinarily add 2-3 TBSP of unnecessary parsley - I sex the sapidity! Fling salad with half of the dressing and swimming in! Rain supererogatory binding on the salad as wanted and believe uncommitted to add any more seasoning to sensing.

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