Saturday, March 6, 2010

Quinoa Black Bean Salad

recipe from: Brooke G.

1 cup uncooked quinoa
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 cup roma tomatoes diced
1 large cucumber diced
1 orange bell pepper diced
1/4 cup purple onion diced
2 limes
1 cup frozen corn
1 large avocado diced (optional)
1/2 bunch cilantro (rinsed and chopped)

Rinse quinoa. Cook according to package directions.You can cook it like rice, 2 to 1 ratio. While quinoa is cooking dice tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, and onion.Combine tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, and onion in a bowl and squeeze the lime over the top, then put in fridge to keep cool. Once quinoa is cooked add frozen corn to it, and put in fridge to cool off. After quinoa is done cooling combine all ingredients together. Add salt to flavor, and garnish with cilantro and avocados.

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