🥑 Quinoa Salad with Avocado and Cherry Tomatoes

Warm quinoa with creamy avocado, cherry tomatoes, and a lemon dressing. Filling and nutritious.
⏱️ 25 min🍽️ 2 servings👩🍳 Easy🔥 527 calories per serving💪 15 g protein per serving
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup uncooked (about 5.5 oz / 160 g) quinoa
- 1 avocado avocado
- 7 oz (200 g), about 1 1/3 cups cherry tomatoes
- 1 lemon lemon
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
How to make it, step by step
- Rinse the quinoa well and cook it for 15 minutes in salted water (twice as much water as quinoa).
- Let the quinoa cool for 5 minutes.
- Cube the avocado and halve the cherry tomatoes.
- Combine the quinoa, avocado, and cherry tomatoes in a bowl.
- Dress with lemon juice, oil, salt, and pepper.
Nutrition facts (per serving)
527
calories
15 g
protein
56 g
carbs
28 g
fat
Values are approximate.
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