I love a traditional greek salad, but it simply isn't filling enough as a stand alone meal. This is why I came up with this greek quinoa salad recipe. It is a healthy vegan quinoa bowl made with quinoa, tomatoes, olives, cucumber, mint, avocado, and a lemon olive oil dressing.
Quinoa Salad With Avocado
A traditional greek salad is not usually made with avocado. However, to make this quinoa salad idea vegan, I have decided to substitute feta cheese with avocado. I use half an avocado in my recipe, but you may choose to include a whole one if you are feeling especially hungry or would rather an avocado quinoa salad.
This quinoa salad with cucumber makes a great vegan meal prep idea. The photo above shows this salad divided into 4 work lunches.
Why I Love This Greek Quinoa Bowl Recipe
There are a few reasons why I consider this as one of the best recipes for a quinoa salad, and they include:
- Minimal prep time required. This makes it perfect for a vegan meal prep idea, or for vegan packed lunches. Check out the recipe video below to watch me making this for one of my healthy vegan lunchbox ideas
- It is a healthy quinoa bowl recipe, using only 100% whole foods
- The fresh mint leaves is a great flavour addition and something different!
How To Make A Quinoa Salad
As previously stated, I love to make this greek quinoa salad recipe as one of my vegan meal prep lunches to take to work. Press play on the video below to watch me make it for lunch.
Quinoa Salad Recipe Dressing
I keep the salad dressing for this recipe real simple.Using only fresh lemon juice, vinegar, and olive oil. Alternatively, If you are looking to add more flavour to your salad, a great idea could be to sprinkle some dukkah! You can easily buy some ready made dukkah or try making your own. Check out love and lemons recipe if you want to try and make your own!
More Ideas For Quinoa Salad
Are you looking for more ideas for quinoa salad? Why not check out some more of my recipes including:
- Quinoa & Hummus Salad
- Quinoa Chickpea Salad
- Vegan Tempeh Salad
- Fig Salad With Quinoa
- Pomegranate Salad With Potato & Quinoa
- Middle Eastern Bean Salad
Greek Quinoa Salad
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked quinoa about ¾ uncooked quinoa
- 1-2 cucumbers
- ½ jar pitted black olives
- ½ punnet cherry tomatotes, halved
- ½ bunch fresh mint leaves
- 1 avocado, diced
- ½ red onion, diced optional
Salad Dressing
- ½ juice of fresh lemon
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 2-3 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a bowl and toss
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