Recipe: Delicious Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad

Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad. A bed of greens - your choice, I love arugula - topped with roasted sweet potato, cooked quinoa, and a simple maple mustard dressing. The maple mustard dressing goes so well with the sweet potato…you'll just have to trust me on that one. A vibrant, healthy and nutritious rainbow colored vegan sweet potato quinoa salad with black beans is perfect to celebrate Cinco de Mayo or just about any day of the year.

Let's start with this delicious cilantro pesto. Fresh cilantro is combined with pine nuts, red onion, garlic, red wine vinegar and olive oil - the outcome is a creamy and fresh dressing you could use on anything. Sweet potatoes and quinoa are both delicious and so healthy on their own but if you combine them to make a sweet potato quinoa salad, the result is divine. You can have Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad

1. Prepare 1 tbsp of light soy sauce.
2. Prepare 2 cup of dice sweet potato.
3. Prepare 1 cup of dice onion.
4. Prepare 1 cup of quinoa with 3 cup water.
5. You need 1 cup of vegetables stock.
6. You need 1 dash of dry parsley.
7. You need 1 pinch of salt.
8. It's of garnish.
9. Prepare 1 of thinly slice mango.

However, I didn't just stop at sweet potatoes and quinoa. I wanted to create a salad that would reap maximum health benefits with a wide array of minerals and vitamins. Place the cubed sweet potatoes and red onion on a large baking sheet. Healthy, delicious and tasty - my Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad is a great side-dish or main meal.

Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad instructions

1. lightly toast quinoa then add water.
2. cooked quinoa with salt bring to a boil for 15 minute then off heat set aside.
3. with oil brown onion and sweet potato.
4. add stock then simmer dice sweet potato for 8 minute till soft.
5. once sweet potato is almost dry then add cooked quinao and sauce mix well top parsley.
6. set aside till cooled.
7. slice mango and plate it then top cooled quinoa and top extra mango dice.

Quinoa is such a versatile ingredient, and very easy to cook with. Pronounced keen-wah, Quinoa is an ancient crop, originally from the Andes. Add about a tablespoon of the neutral frying oil and season with salt. Then add the shredded cabbage, cooked quinoa, carrots, sweet potatoes, and leafy greens on top. When ready to serve, shake the jar to help distribute the dressing, then dump the jar into a large bowl and serve immediately.

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