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. Home » Gluten Free » Sweet Potato and Quinoa Salad.
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. 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. You can cook Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad
- You need 1 tbsp of light soy sauce.
- You need 2 cup of dice sweet potato.
- You need 1 cup of dice onion.
- Prepare 1 cup of quinoa with 3 cup water.
- It's 1 cup of vegetables stock.
- Prepare 1 dash of dry parsley.
- Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
- You need of garnish.
- Prepare 1 of thinly slice mango.
Get ready to be in salad heaven with this Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad with Vegan Cilantro Pesto. 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. Additional Quinoa Sweet Potato Salad Considerations: The roasted sweet potatoes, chickpeas, caramelizy shallots, maple walnuts, and quinoa all make a delicious and filling meal, period.
Sweet Potato Quinoa Vegan Salad instructions
- lightly toast quinoa then add water.
- cooked quinoa with salt bring to a boil for 15 minute then off heat set aside.
- with oil brown onion and sweet potato.
- add stock then simmer dice sweet potato for 8 minute till soft.
- once sweet potato is almost dry then add cooked quinao and sauce mix well top parsley.
- set aside till cooled.
- slice mango and plate it then top cooled quinoa and top extra mango dice.
But my favorite recipes are ones that kind of give you room to improv a bit depending on the mood of the day, and there's definitely room for that here. A few things to note about making this sweet potato quinoa salad: Only add dressing to what you plan on eating in the same day. Unfortunately, this sweet potato quinoa salad doesn't sit super well with the dressing. 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.