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Simple But Sassy: Quinoa and Brown Rice Side Salad

By March 24, 2016Recipes
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This is a great addition to your dinner, and more fun than your regular garden side salad. It’s simple, quick, and tasty. The rice and quinoa provide high amounts of the fiber, essential amino acids, and minerals your body needs to function optimally.

There are unlimited options to add into the salad to make it tasty and satisfying, so get creative. This recipe is good for one serving, so just multiply if you are serving more.

Quinoa and Brown Rice Side Salad

Here is the basic salad idea, plus two options for dressings you can make yourself. That way you know the ingredients are good for you!

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Quinoa and Brown Rice Side Salad
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Quinoa and Brown Rice Side Salad

This is a great addition to your dinner, and more fun than your regular garden side salad. It’s simple, quick, and tasty

Category Salad, Side Dish, Vegetarian
Compliance Level Kickstart, Lifestyle
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1
Author Holli Lawler

Ingredients

Salad Ingredients:

  • 1/2-2/3 cup already-cooked brown rice and quinoa blended together
  • 1 bunch butter lettuce chopped
  • 1 zucchini grated
  • 8-10 cherry tomatoes chopped

Lemon Garlic Dressing:

  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 small clove garlic crushed
  • Salt and black pepper

Balsamic Dijon Vinaigrette:

  • 1/3 cup olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

Instructions

  1. Mix all the salad ingredients in bowl.

  2. If you wanted to make this dinner, instead of a side salad, you could add chicken or hard-boiled eggs. This recipe is also a great way to use up any unused brown rice and quinoa you have in your fridge.

  3. To make the dressings, either whisk the ingredients together in a bowl or put them in an airtight container and shake (maybe do a little dance while you shake, too).

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Holli Lawler
Holli has been involved in health and fitness since the young age of six. She was a national- and international-level gymnast and competed until the age of eighteen. After that, she started working in the fitness industry as a personal trainer.

Holli’s goal is to help as many people as she can to be the best versions of themselves. She specializes in weight loss and helping people have a better lifestyle and relationship with food. She enjoys being creative with food and putting pictures on her Instagram to motivate people to be healthy. Holli believes food has a direct correlation with happiness - when you’re eating well, you function well and you feel your best.