Quinoa Salad Recipe with Asparagus and Strawberries with Balsamico
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Today I’ll show you my quinoa salad recipe.
At the moment asparagus and strawberries fit perfectly into the salad.
Depending on the market offer and season, you can use other vegetables for the salad.
Let yourself be inspired by the following…
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1. Recipe Quinoa Salad
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Quinoa Salad with Asparagus, Strawberries and Balsamico
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide to prepare quinoa salad.
Ingredients
Quinoa Salad Ingredients | ||
200 | g | quinoa |
400 | ml | Vegetable broth |
200 | g | strawberries (I like to use local strawberries!) |
1 | bunch | green asparagus |
Salt | ||
Pepper (I like to use pepper black or green) | ||
brown sugar | ||
lemon juice | ||
oliv oil | ||
1/4 | bunch | mint (fresh mint) |
Ingredients Orange Juice Curry Dressing | ||
1 | pc | Orange |
1 | tsp | Dijon mustard |
3 | pinch | agave syrup |
3 | pinch | Pepper |
1/2 | tsp | curry (I like to use Madras Curry) |
4 | pinch | Sugar (I also like to use 1 teaspoon honey) |
50-80 | ml | oliv oil |
Ingredients for Balsamico Reduction | ||
150 | ml | balsamico (I use a matured balsamic vinegar 10 years old.) |
2 | pinch | Salt (Test the guide value according to the balsamic vinegar!) |
3 | pinch | Pepper |
Instruction
Provide ingredients
Prepare the ingredients for preparation:
Wash the strawberries briefly and dry them.
Now wash the green asparagus and peel them on the underside, and make the remaining ingredients ready to hand as indicated above.
Wash quinoa
Wash the quinoa on a sieve under warm running water.
Quinoa cooking
Add double the amount of water to the quinoa, season with salt, bring to the boil and let it swell over a moderate heat.
Then drain the quinoa and place in a bowl.
Asparagus cooking
For the asparagus, bring water to the boil and season with salt, pepper, sugar and olive oil.
Place the peeled asparagus in the pan and cook for about 6-8 minutes until al dente.
Remove the asparagus and place in a grill pan.
Squeeze orange juice
Squeeze the orange with a juicer.
Prepare dressing
Put orange juice with Dijon mustard, sugar, salt and pepper and curry in a bowl.
Mix Dressing
Mix the ingredients and let the olive oil run in slowly.
The result is an emulsified salad dressing.
Prepare the orange juice curry salad dressing for marinating.
Prepare vinegar
Cook the balsamic vinegar in a saucepan at high heat until half of it is done, season to taste with salt and pepper.
Allow balsamic vinegar reduction to cool.
Grill asparagus
Grill the prepared, cooked asparagus in the ribbed grill pan over a high heat.
Season the asparagus spears with salt, pepper and a little sugar to taste.
Remove the asparagus from the pan.
Prepare vegetables
Cut the grilled asparagus and strawberries into small pieces for the salad.
Now cut the strawberries into quarters.
Place some asparagus tips for decoration.
Glace strawberries
Spread the cooled balsamicoglace on one side of the prepared strawberries.
Finish salad
Marinate the quinoa with 2/3 of the prepared orange juice curry dressing.
Arrange the quinoa on plates.
Marinate the asparagus with the rest of the salad dressing and serve with it.
Place the strawberries in the quinoa salad.
Decorate with the mint and serve.
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
2. Nutritional Values
3. Vegetable Variants for Quinoa Salad
For example fennel and orange in winter… Zucchini and tomatoes in summer… Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds in autumn…
4. Ideas for Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberries
Back to the quinoa salad variant with asparagus and strawberries:
Today there is balsamic vinegar with the strawberries and I prepare a balsamic vinegar reduction.
This is balsamic vinegar, which gives the strawberries a great taste kick and sticks well to the fruits.
5. Ideas for Quinoa Salad Dressing
For the quinoa salad dressing, I invite you to try a combination of orange juice, lemon juice, curry and olive oil.
Just an orange juice curry dressing.
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