🥑 Quinoa Salad with Avocado and Cherry Tomatoes

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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

  1. Rinse the quinoa well and cook it for 15 minutes in salted water (twice as much water as quinoa).
  2. Let the quinoa cool for 5 minutes.
  3. Cube the avocado and halve the cherry tomatoes.
  4. Combine the quinoa, avocado, and cherry tomatoes in a bowl.
  5. 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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