Recipe: Appetizing Chef Chad's Quinoa Salad

Chef Chad's Quinoa Salad. Bento in Los Angeles, chef Chad Aaland makes quinoa salad with three types of beans and house-pickled onions. Meanwhile, in a small skillet, toast the cumin seeds over high heat, shaking the pan, until fragrant. Delicious healthy salad made using a combination a fresh cut vegetables and the quinoa grain.

Episode: The Chef and the Architect. Quinoa, a "new" ingredient that has been around for thousands of years, is a tiny, high-protein grain from South America. Bento in Los Angeles, chef Chad Aaland makes quinoa salad with three types of beans and house-pickled onions. You can cook Chef Chad's Quinoa Salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chef Chad's Quinoa Salad

1. Prepare 1 cup of Quinoa.
2. It's 1 of Red Pepper.
3. You need 1 1/3 of Cucumber.
4. Prepare 1 of Vegetable stock.
5. Prepare 1 of Avocado.
6. Prepare 1 clove of Garlic.
7. It's 1 of Lemon.
8. Prepare 1 1/3 cup of Pine nuts.
9. You need 1 of Shallot.
10. You need 1 of Olive oil.
11. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Parsley.

In a medium saucepan, combine the quinoa, water, and a pinch of salt; bring to a boil. An easy, make-ahead recipe for quinoa salad filled with fresh vegetables, herbs, and cheese. This colorful quinoa salad holds up well in the fridge all week long, is perfectly packable, and has enough protein and other good things to keep you satisfied. The quinoa adapts well to advance preparation, and letting the salad sit before serving improves the texture.

Chef Chad's Quinoa Salad step by step

1. Start with a warm pan.
2. Slice up garlic and add to pan.
3. Add 1.5 cup vegetable stock and cook quinoa.
4. Add quinoa to bowl.
5. Add sliced up shallot, avocado, red pepper, cucumber to quinoa.
6. Add toasted pine nuts, olive oil, salt, parsley to quinoa and veggies.
7. Roll lemon and squeeze juice into quinoa.
8. Stir up salad.
9. Optional: serve on bed of greens & or grilled tofu.

In summer, this dish is prime picnic material. Fold mushrooms and leaves into it. The cooked quinoa can be set aside at room temperature for several hours and then. So that's what Chang—a self-taught chef who was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Santa Barbara, spent time in Japan, ran a supper club, studied kinesiology at USC and worked at Animal in L. Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) — a high protein seed that has a fluffy, slightly crunchy texture — is cooked with olive oil, onions and vegetable broth, which add wonderful flavor.

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