Healthy Quinoa Chickpea Salad
The benefits of Quinoa Chickpea Salad include weight loss and improved heart health. Chickpeas are a good source of protein.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup Quinoa
- ½ cup Soaked chickpeas/ chana / chole
- ½ small Tomato chopped
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
- Few Mint leaves (optional)
- Few Coriander leaves or celery
- Pinch Pepper powder
- 1 tbsp Carrots minced
- 2 tbsp Cucumber
- 1 Green chilli deseeded
- Virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil
- To taste Salt
Instructions
- Wash quinoa well and soak them for about 15 minutes. Drain off the water.
- Cook them with ¾ cup water. If there is extra water left, you can just evaporate them by cooking on a high heat. When they are thoroughly cooked , they turn opaque.
- Make sure there is no water left in the cooked quinoa. Let them cool.
- Soak chickpeas overnight and boil them till soft.
- Add all the ingredients to a bowl and toss.
- Serve fresh.
Notes
Note: 1) If you are not on vegan or low fat diet, you can include few chunks of roasted paneer and nuts.
2)To cook one cup of quinoa, 2 to 2½ cups of water is good enough.