Manic Monday Meals: Flavour Packed Quinoa Salad with Chilli Nut Mince
 
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Ingredients
  • 1.5 cups quinoa
  • 1 fresh red chilli
  • 100g baby spinach
  • 4 spring onions
  • 1 bunch fresh coriander
  • ½ bunch fresh mint
  • 1 large ripe mango
  • 1 avocado
  • 2 limes
  • Olive oil
  • 50g feta
Chilli Nut Mince
  • 2 cups soaked nuts ( I used equal parts almond flakes and walnuts) soaked for min 30 minutes but up to 6hrs if you have time.
  • 2 T soy sauce
  • 2T cumin
  • 1tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
To serve:
  • 4 T greek yogurt
  • *Optional: ½ punnet of snowpea sprouts
Instructions
  1. Put the quinoa in a pan with 3 cups of water and bring to the boil then turn the heat down to medium and allow to simmer for 12 minutes. Then cover and remove from the heat.
  2. In a food processor combine the spinach, spring onion, coriander and mint (reserving a few leaves of each) and blitz until finely chopped.
  3. Drain the quinoa and rinse it in a colander under cold water. Then mix it together with the chopped herbs, squeeze the juice of 1 lime over and drizzle with olive oil. Season well with salt and pepper. Spread the mixture out on a serving platter.
  4. Slice the mango finely and the avocado into chunks and place them over the quinoa
  5. Strain the nuts and blitz them in the food processor until they form a chunky crumble. Add the spices, soy sauce and juice and zest of 1 lime. Then spoon the nut mince over the quinoa.
  6. Scatter a finely sliced red chilli over the top, crumble the feta, drizzle the yogurt and scatter the snowpea sprouts and a few coriander leaves over before serving.
Recipe by The Luminous Kitchen at http://theluminouskitchen.com/manic-monday-meals-flavor-packed-quinoa-salad-chillie-nut-mince/