Recipe Roasted Vegetables And Quinoa

This Warm Quinoa & Roasted Veggie Salad combines the taste and texture of roasted veggies and fluffy and nutty quinoa with a delicious homemade vinaigrette dressing.

Simple and easy to make, you can roast your favorite vegetables (this recipe uses zucchini, sweet potatoes, baby carrots, mushrooms, and broccoli) and toss them in a lightly sweetened and slightly tart vinaigrette to lock in all those flavors. And as a bonus — you can even sprinkle crumbled feta on top for an added flavor boost.

Enjoying this dish now, I am taken back to my younger years when I “had” to eat my vegetables. I would sit at the dinner table, looking down at my veggies, trying to figure out how I was going to make it through. Now I can’t get enough them, and they are a consistent part of my daily cuisine. There is an advantage in understanding the importance of a healthy diet and the nutritional value of the foods we eat.

Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Salad

This vegan recipe goes to show that enjoying healthy-for-you dishes doesn’t mean they lack flavor. This recipe will surprisingly catch your taste buds off guard!

When roasting vegetables (especially root vegetables), you automatically enhance their flavor and natural sweetness via the caramelization that occurs during the roast process (dry cooking). So when I roast my vegetables, a simple seasoning of salt and pepper does just fine. You really want to allow the natural flavors from the veggies to shine.

Pronounced KEEN-wah, quinoa is actually not a grain — although it is used in the same way rice, farro, or other similar grains would be used. It is a grain-like and naturally gluten-free pseudocereal hailing from South America.

Roasted Veggies & Quinoa Salad With Cilantro Lime Dressing

Quinoa is good for you. A cup of quinoa provides twice the amount of protein (packing more than any other grain) and fiber as the same amount of white rice. It’s rich in vitamins, minerals, and essential amino acids. Plus, it’s packed full of antioxidants, which can also help with blood sugar, aid in weight loss, and improve your cholesterol. Clearly, quinoa is the way to go and is a worthy inclusion in your diet.

Quinoa comes in various colors– like red, black, or white, but they all cook the same way. While the lighter varieties carry a mild flavor, the darker varieties are more robust.

When you want a recipe packed with both flavor and nutrients, give this Warm Quinoa Roasted Vegetable Salad with Homemade Vinaigrette a spot on your dinner table!

Quinoa Salad With Roasted Vegetables

I'm Eric --- a husband, father, Louisiana native, and lover of Tex-Mex and double-stacked burgers. On this site, you'll find Southern recipes I learned from my grandmothers using simple, approachable ingredients.Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Salad with roasted sweet potato, carrots, butternut squash, walnuts, and maple-cider vinaigrette. This colorful, hearty salad is a marvelous side dish for fall and winter.

One of my favorite side dishes to make in bulk and share this time of year is a hearty quinoa salad. Starchy winter vegetables roasted to perfection and mixed in with quinoa, nuts, and fresh herbs is all-things nutritious, inviting, and filling.

If you’re already on the prowl for recipes to make and share over the holiday season, this one’s a keeper! It’s so easy to prepare and is an awesome option when you’re serving guests with dietary restrictions because it is clean as can be.

Vegan Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Salad

I use Thrive Algae Oil both for roasting the vegetables and in the dressing for the quinoa salad. The fact that this algae oil has a high smoke point (up to 485 degrees F!) makes it ideal for roasting vegetables, and because it is light and neutral in flavor, it is perfect for using in dressings.

If you don’t have access to algae oil, avocado oil is a great replacement, as it is also a high-temperature cooking oil.

In addition, one of my favorite parts about algae oil is its monounsaturated fat content – it contains a higher percentage of monounsaturated fat than any other oil! In this sense, swapping other oils for algae oil is easy, and it’s a no-brainer.

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Cooking the quinoa while your vegetables are roasting helps cut down the prep time. The dressing comes together in a matter of seconds, so you can prepare the dressing while the vegetables are roasting as well.

Once everything is ready, simply toss it all together in a big bowl with fresh parsley and toasted walnuts. The combination of the comforting roasted vegetables, the nutty crunch of the walnuts with the quinoa and tangy dressing makes for a beautiful bite.

I absolutely love consuming this salad warm alongside an entrée, like baked salmon, grilled chicken, pot roast, etc., but the salad can also be eaten cold. For those of you who bring food to work, this is an excellent option for make-ahead lunches.

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This easy warm salad recipe is ideal for meal prep or for serving guests. It saves very well, so you can make the whole thing up to 5 days in advance or prepare it easily in parts. Simply make the quinoa, dressing, and/or roasted vegetables anywhere between 1 and 5 days ahead of time and toss it together when you’re ready to eat.

Enjoy this roasted winter vegetable quinoa salad alongside the Instant Pot Turmeric Chicken and Root Vegetables I posted a few weeks ago for a complete, highly nutrient-dense meal!

I recently made this for a dinner with friends and everyone enjoyed it! Had to substitute the parsnip with extra carrots, nix the walnuts, and I used kamut instead of quinoa. I LOVED the vinaigrette. Can't wait to use it in another salad. Thank you!

Roasted Vegetable & Quinoa Salad

This is absolutely one of my favorite quinoa recipes! The tangy deliciousness of this dish is unparalleled. It's good hot or cold and filling for hours.

Wahoo! I'm thrilled to hear it! I love it any time of year as well :D Thanks for the sweet note, m'dear! xoxooMy Quinoa with Roasted Vegetables is a delicious and colorful gluten-free dish featuring quinoa, a nutritional powerhouse. I toss quinoa with sweet, caramelized roasted vegetables and a light balsamic vinaigrette. It's a simple and elegant vegetarian entrée or side dish or can even be topped with grilled chicken or fish, if desired.

Blog was an “Ingredient 911” post about quinoa. I was a culinary student at the time and quinoa was a hot new ingredient that was all the rage in the culinary world.

Warm Roasted Vegetable Salad

I was so fascinated with quinoa that I even used it in my recipe just a few months earlier when I competed at the National Beef Cook-Off in Sonoma, California. My dish was “Pomegranate Steak with Quinoa.”

I distinctly recall the interviewers at the cook-off asking me more questions about the quinoa than the beef because they had never heard of it. Quinoa has certainly come a long way since then!

As a doctor and a chef, quinoa is one of my favorite ingredients to work because it not only has a stellar nutritional profile, it also has amazing culinary versatility. You can use quinoa in a wide variety of dishes, both savory and sweet.

Warm Quinoa And Roasted Vegetable Salad

Some of my favorites are my Black Bean and Quinoa Veggie Burgers, Quinoa Salad with Spinach, Strawberries and Goat Cheese and Quinoa Fried Rice with Tuna.

Quinoa is the perfect ingredient to incorporate into your diet if you’re looking to make smarter food choices and lead a healthier lifestyle.

Although quinoa is technically a seed, it is classified as a whole grain. To learn more about the nutritional benefits of whole grains, read my post Everything You Need to Know About Whole Grains.

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Quinoa has a wide range of colors but only three main varieties are cultivated- white, red, and black. I like to buy Bobs' Red Mill tricolor quinoa, which is a mixture of the three.It adds a lot of beautiful color to my dishes.

Do you ever feel rushed to get a nutritious meal on the table in the evening? The good news is that quinoa is also really easy to prepare. It only takes 15 minutes to cook! You can even cook it in a rice cooker if you have one. One of my tips is that I like to cook quinoa in chicken or vegetable stock because it infuses it with great flavor.

If you haven’t cooked with quinoa a lot, a good place to start would be to substitute it into any recipe that calls for rice or couscous.

Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowls

. Roasting vegetables at a high temperature caramelizes their sugars and brings out their natural sweetness.As the vegetables roast, they brown on the outside, become buttery soft on the inside and their flavors intensify.

Whenever I’m trying to get more veggies into my diet, I make several large trays of my Perfect Oven-Roasted Vegetables and store them in the fridge to snack on during the week.

, I roast some of my favorite vegetables like colorful carrots, zucchini, red onion, and bell peppers along with whole cloves of garlic until they become soft and sweet.

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Then I toss them with quinoa that I've cooked in vegetable stock. I love the extra color that you get from this mix of white, red, and black quinoa.

For a final pop of flavor,