Quinoa Salad with Roasted Vegetables

By @chef10
A healthy and flavorful salad featuring fluffy quinoa and colorful roasted vegetables, perfect as a light meal or side dish.
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Ingredients
- ●1 cup Quinoa
- ●1 cup Broccoli florets
- ●1 cup Diced red bell pepper
- ●1 cup Diced zucchini
- ●2 tablespoons Olive oil
- ●1/2 teaspoon Salt
- ●1/4 teaspoon Black pepper
- ●2 tablespoons Lemon juice
- ●1/4 cup Feta cheese (optional)
Instructions
- 1Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
- 2Rinse quinoa in a fine-mesh sieve.
- 3Cook quinoa according to package directions. Usually, this involves boiling 2 cups of water for every 1 cup of quinoa, then simmering for 15 minutes.
- 4While quinoa is cooking, toss broccoli, red bell pepper, and zucchini with olive oil, salt, and pepper on a baking sheet.
- 5Roast vegetables for 20-25 minutes, or until tender and slightly browned.
- 6In a large bowl, combine cooked quinoa and roasted vegetables.
- 7Drizzle with lemon juice and toss to combine.
- 8Top with feta cheese, if desired, and serve warm or cold.
Recipe details
- Category
- Salad
- Preparation
- 34 minutes
Estimated total: 57 minutes. Planning estimate: stated duration ranges use their midpoint; standard preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Resting/chilling is included in total time.
How these estimates were calculated
- Setup: 5 min planning allowance (setup)
- Prep vegetables: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Preheat oven: 15 min planning allowance (oven_preheat)
- Rinse quinoa: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Boil water for quinoa: 10 min planning allowance (boil_heat)
- Toss vegetables with oil and seasoning: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Transfer vegetables to baking sheet: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Combine quinoa and vegetables: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Drizzle with lemon juice and toss: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Garnish with feta: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Serve: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Cooking overlaps preparation or other cooking; a separate cooking subtotal is omitted.
- Chop broccoli, bell pepper, zucchini
- Optional feta cheese
- Quinoa: USDA cup portion weight
- Dry quinoa uses USDA uncooked quinoa, 170 g per cup.
- Broccoli florets: USDA cup flowerets portion weight
- Matched 'Broccoli florets' to 'Broccoli, flower clusters, raw' using 'cup flowerets' portion.
- Diced red bell pepper: USDA cup, chopped portion weight
- Matched 'Diced red bell pepper' to 'Peppers, sweet, red, raw' using 'cup, chopped' portion.
- Diced zucchini: USDA cup, chopped portion weight
- Matched 'Diced zucchini' to 'Squash, summer, zucchini, includes skin, raw' using 'cup, chopped' portion.
- Olive oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- Matched 'Olive oil' to 'Oil, olive, salad or cooking' using 'tablespoon' portion.
- Salt: USDA tsp portion weight
- Matched 'Salt' to 'Salt, table' using 'tsp' portion.
- Black pepper: USDA tsp, ground portion weight
- Matched 'Black pepper' to 'Spices, pepper, black' using 'tsp, ground' portion.
- Lemon juice: USDA tbsp portion weight
- Matched 'Lemon juice' to 'Lemon juice from concentrate, canned or bottled' using 'tbsp' portion as a common equivalent.
- Excludes optional Feta cheese (optional)
- Quinoa: 170 g · USDA reference 168874
- Broccoli florets: 71 g · USDA reference 169330
- Diced red bell pepper: 149 g · USDA reference 170108
- Diced zucchini: 124 g · USDA reference 169291
- Olive oil: 27 g · USDA reference 171413
- Salt: 3 g · USDA reference 173468
- Black pepper: 0.57 g · USDA reference 170931
- Lemon juice: 30 g · USDA reference 167748
- Feta cheese (optional): optional ingredient excluded
quinoa · roasted vegetables · broccoli · zucchini
Estimated nutrition per serving
238 calories · 7.3 g protein · 31.9 g carbohydrate · 9.6 g fat · 4.6 g fiber · 304 mg sodium
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Documented USDA or manufacturer portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Excludes optional Feta cheese (optional) Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
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