Quinoa Tabouli with Lemon Garlic Grilled Shrimp

Photo: Eva Taylor

Ingredients

1 cup Quinoa

2 cups water

2 teaspoons sea salt

2 celery stalks

each red, yellow and orange peppers

2 green onions

12 kalamatas olives or sun-dried olives

1 vine ripened tomato, seeded

1/4 cup frozen corn (may be omitted)

1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley

6 mint leaves

6 cloves finely minced garlic

1/2 cup lemon juice

Sea Salt

10 grilled shrimp seasoned with lemon juice and garlic (jui

Preparation

Add salt to water and boil.

Toast Quinoa for a couple of minutes in a dry pan – moving around so it doesn’t burn (when you hear it pop, count to 5 and remove immediately)

Add Quinoa and cook for 12 minutes on a soft boil, or until all the water is soaked into the Quinoa.

While cooking the Quinoa, add minced garlic to lemon juice, allow to sit.

Remove Quinoa from heat and add lemon juice and garlic mixture, mix well. Allow to absorb and cool.

Chop all veg into similar sized pieces (I like about 1/4″ dice).

Chop parsley and mint finely.

When Quinoa has cooled, mix everything together. Serve with grilled shrimp!

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About

I love Tabouli – absolutely love it. But bulgar is still a carb, so I don’t make it often. Recently I thought of Quinoa, why not? Searching for recipes, I found that I wasn’t the first to think of it. Oh well! I usually add any veg I have in the house, keeping in mind that you eat with your eyes first – I think it looks like jewels! And it’s a delicious, healthy salad – if you’re hungry, add grilled shrimp or tuna!